Seward v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding denial of a continuance to appoint new counsel was a \structural error\
• “[I]t is impossible to know what different choices the rejected counsel would have made, and then to quantify the impact of those different choices on the outcome of the proceedings.”
• “The record does not reflect that the circuit court considered, for example, the length of the delay requested, the impact of the delay on the prosecution, witness or the court, and whether the delay was for a dilatory purpose.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).