State v. Zackuse

OPINION AND ORDER

Notice of appeal was filed in this matter on May 30, 1991. The District Court record was transmitted to the Clerk of this Court on September 11,1991. The District Judge presiding has now forwarded to the Court a copy of an August 28, 1991, letter in which defendant and appellant Zackuse asks that different counsel be appointed to represent him on appeal because his present counsel “is very ineffective and insufficient.”

A defendant’s right to assistance of counsel at public expense extends through an original appeal of right, but the accused does not have the right to counsel…