State v. Harter.

Opinion of the Court by

POLLACK, J.

This ease concerns a defendant’s right in a criminal case to be represented by counsel free from divided loyalties. Our decision addresses whether Letitia Harter’s request for substitution of counsel should have been granted by the trial court. The court denied the request for new counsel, and following trial, a jury convicted Harter of all the charges against her. Harter appealed from the Judgment of Conviction and Sentence (judgment of conviction) of the Circuit Court of the First Circuit (circuit court).

The Intermediate Court of Appeals (ICA) affirmed the…