McCall v. District Court for the Twenty-First Judicial District

In this original proceeding under C.A.R. 21, we issued a rule directing the respondent, Mesa County District Court, 1 to show cause why the Colorado State Public Defender should not be permitted to withdraw from representing defendant Donnie Ray McCall on appeal from the denial of his motion for post-conviction review of a judgment and sentence for second-degree murder. The public defender had moved to withdraw based upon a conflict of interest. The asserted conflict arose because McCall’s pro se motion for post-conviction review alleged ineffective assistance of counsel in the district court…