United States v. Segarra-Rivera

How courts have described this case

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• discussing general right to counsel at hearings on motions to withdraw plea
• remanding for an evidentiary hearing where the defendant alleged that his attorney coerced him into pleading guilty by engaging in unethical behavior to conceal the fact that he was unprepared for trial
• “The entry of a guilty plea is one such critical stage, and a plea-withdrawal hearing is another.”
• \Not every bare allegation of a disagreement between lawyer and client is enough to trigger a right to new counsel. An even smaller subset of such disagreements will (even arguably) amount to an actual conflict of interest.\
• stating a general right to counsel at plea withdrawal hearings
• addressing conflict between attorney's personal interest and client’s interests

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).