State v. McReynolds

*633LINDER, J.

The issue in this criminal appeal is whether the trial court erred by failing to inquire into the merits of defendant’s request for substitute counsel. We conclude that, on the facts before us, the trial judge had no duty to make such an inquiry. We therefore affirm.

At the end of the first day of defendant’s jury trial on an assault charge, defendant wrote the trial judge a letter complaining in some detail about his attorney’s representation and asking for a “new attorney], and a new trial with a new jury.” Defendant had the letter hand-delivered to the judge in an envelope that…