State v. Kennedy

OPINION

FAY, Chief Justice.

This case is before the Supreme Court on appeal by the defendant, Timothy Kennedy, from a Superior Court jury conviction of robbery, of carrying a pistol without a license, and of committing a crime of violence while armed. The defendant claims that the trial justice committed error (1) by refusing his requests for substitute counsel or, alternatively, by not allowing the defendant to proceed pro se and thereby forcing him to go to trial with an attorney with whom the defendant was dissatisfied, (2) by refusing to pass the case when a complain ing witness, in a…