Kenneth Coffelt v. Honorable Terry L. Shell

This case is an appeal by an attorney, Kenneth Coffelt, from a district court1 order relieving Coffelt of his representation of a certain criminal defendant, Arthur Lewis Gordon, and ordering a modification of Coffelt’s fee arrangement with Gordon. The order came during the Government’s presentation of its case against Gordon and was accompanied by a judicial declaration of mistrial. The case was being tried to the court without a jury. We have been advised by the appellee’s brief that the court appointed a new attorney for Gordon and he was subsequently convicted by a jury on the charges…