Commonwealth v. Novak

How courts have described this case

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• holding the defendant’s request to change counsel on the day of trial was properly denied
• holding the defendant's request to change counsel on the day of trial was properly denied
• holding the defendant’s request to change counsel on the day of trial was properly denied
• finding no constitutional violation where new counsel had not been retained
• defendant has the constitutional right to choose at his or her own cost and expense any lawyer he or she desires
• “It is the client’s responsibility and not the attorney’s to pay for the heavy costs of trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).