United States v. Christopher Kelley

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “a defendant’s frustration with counsel who does not share defendant’s tactical opinions but continues to provide zealous representation” does not rise to the level of justifiable dissatisfaction
• stating that the defendant waived his right to appeal a nondispositive issue decided by a magistrate judge by failing to file objections with the district court
• acknowledging district courts must balance many factors when faced with a motion to appoint substitute counsel, including “the need to thwart abusive delay tactics”
• finding no justifiable dissatisfaction where a defendant “requested substitute counsel because of ... a purported lack of communication” and “wished his attorney had been more open and spent more time with him”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).