People v. Myles

I respectfully dissent. The right to counsel guaranteed by the sixth and fourteenth amendments to the Federal Constitution, by section 9 of article II of the Illinois Constitution, and by section 113 — 3 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1969, ch. 38, par. 113 — 3) includes the right to be represented by counsel of one’s own choice. (People v. Colon (1973), 9 Ill. App. 3d 989, 994, 293 N.E.2d 468, 472.) While an accused in a criminal case has this right, it is likewise true that such right may not be employed as a weapon to indefinitely thwart the administration of justice,…