State v. Lange

Michael D.W. Lange appeals a Richland County District Court order revoking his suspended sentence and requiring him to serve two years in the state prison. The issue on appeal is whether the District Court erred in declining to appoint new counsel for Lange’s revocation hearing after Lange rejected the court’s initial choice of counsel for the hearing. We affirm.

Lange was convicted in 1983 of the criminal sale of dangerous drugs and criminal possession with intent to sell, both felonies, and was given a ten year suspended sentence subject to several conditions. One condition specified that…