Willie Lee Hudson v. Ruth L. Rushen, Director of the California Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the “trial court must take the time to conduct such necessary inquiry as might ease the defendant’s dissatisfaction, distrust and concern”
• affirming denial of substitution motion based on ineffective assistance of counsel when breakdown of communication was caused by defendant’s voluntary conduct
• failure to undertake any inquiry into reasons for defendant's motion to replace counsel may be constitutionally impermissible
• failure to undertake any inquiry into reasons for defendant’s motion to replace counsel may be constitutionally impermissible
• where state trial court’s inquiry was held to be “an adequate and fair hearing” and as comprehensive as circumstances reasonably would permit
• failure to undertake any inquiry into reasons for defendant’s motion to replace counsel may be constitutionally impermissible

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).