United States v. El Tora Graham

How courts have described this case

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• \'One of the express limitations upon the right to choose one's own attorney is that the criminal defendant be 'financially able' to retain counsel of his choice.'\
• trial court’s failure to engage defendant in colloquy regarding cause of dissatisfaction with assigned counsel before denying motion for new counsel did not prejudice defendant where assigned counsel ultimately provided effective assistance trial
• “As the constitutional right to choice of counsel does not apply, however, Graham must show not only that the district court improperly disposed of his motions for substitute counsel, but also that the error was prejudicial to his case....”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).