Lemus v. Gonzales

How courts have described this case

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• concluding termination of \established attorney-client relationship\ for post-trial representation improper when based on administrative convenience of service and without appellant's consent
• setting aside that portion of the court-martial that the trial defense counsel who was improperly severed was not able to participate in without inquiring into the existence of prejudice
• attorney-client relationship may only be terminated by accused, absent “a truly extraordinary circumstance rendering virtually impossible the continuation of the established relationship”
• ―Absent a truly extraordinary circumstance rendering virtually impossible the continuation of the [attorney-client] relationship, only the accused may terminate the existing affiliation with his trial defense counsel prior to the case reaching the appellate level.‖
• “Absent a truly extraordinary circumstance rendering virtually impossible the continuation of the established relationship, only the accused may terminate the existing affiliation with his trial defense counsel prior to the case reaching the appellate level.”
• “Ab-sent a truly extraordinary circumstance rendering virtually impossible the continuation of the established relationship, only the accused may terminate the existing affiliation with his trial defense counsel prior to the case reaching the appellate level.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).