KNIGHT

v.

JOHNSON ET AL.

Citator

Cited By (13 total)

• Cruse v. State, 538 So. 2d 954 (Fla. 5th DCA 1989)
  …ce may not be arbitrarily, unnecessarily or unreasonably denied. See United States v. Nichols, 841 F. 2d 1485, 1502 (10th Cir.1988); United States v. Ranken, 779 F. 2d 956 (3d Cir.1986); Ford v. Israel, 701 F. 2d 689, 692 (7th Cir.1983), cert. den., 464 U.S. 832, 104 S.Ct. 114, 78 L.Ed.2d 114 (1983). Although the cases relied on by the trial court hold that a defendant’s right to counsel of his choice may not be used to obstruct the orderly administration of justice, they are factually distinguishable beca…
• United States v. Rigoberto Moya-Gomez, 860 F.2d 706 (7th Cir. 1988)
  …t a criminal defendant has a qualified right to retain counsel of his own choosing to conduct his defense in a criminal case. See In the Matter of Klein, 776 F. 2d 628, 633 (7th Cir.1985); Ford v. Israel, 701 F. 2d 689, 692 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, 464 U.S. 832, 104 S.Ct. 114, 78 L.Ed.2d 114 (1983). More than fifty years ago, the Supreme Court stated that “[i]t is hardly necessary to say that, the right to counsel being conceded, a defendant should be afforded a fair opportunity to secure counsel of his ow…
• United States v. Nichols, 841 F.2d 1485 (10th Cir. 1988)
  …ublic interest. United States v. Phillips, 699 F. 2d 798, 801-02 (6th Cir.1983). A court may not, however, “arbitrarily refuse to allow the defendant to retain the lawyer of his choice.” Ford v. Israel, 701 F. 2d 689, 692 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, 464 U.S. 832, 104 S.Ct. 114, 78 L.Ed.2d 114 (1983); see also, e.g., United States v. Rankin, 779 F. 2d 956, 958 (3d Cir.1986) (choice may not be “hindered unnecessarily”); Birt v. Montgomery, 725 F. 2d 587, 592 (11th Cir.) (en banc) (improper if “unreasonably de…