Legal Opinion
Earl Edward Gandy v. State of Alabama
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 23, 1978No. 77-1265PublishedCited by 151 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JAMES C. HILL, Circuit Judge:
This appeal from the denial of federal habeas corpus relief presents the issue whether the refusal by the state trial court either to grant a motion for a reasonable continuance in order that the defendant have the assistance at trial of counsel whom he had chosen and retained or in some other manner assure the continued attendance of the retained counsel, who announced an intention to abandon the defendant in mid-trial and later did so, was a deprivation of due process violative of the Fourteenth Amendment. U.S.Const. Amend. XIV. Given the specific and unique…
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