Roy Wilson v. Barry Mintzes

CONTIE, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner Roy Wilson, a prisoner at the State Prison of Southern Michigan at Jackson, appeals from the district court’s dismissal of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The issue presented is whether the petitioner was deprived of effective assistance of counsel when the trial judge denied petitioner’s repeated requests for substitute counsel. We conclude that, on the facts of this case, the trial court should have allowed petitioner to retain new counsel and thus we reverse the district court.

The petitioner had been previously convicted by a…