Mondragon v. State

Blackburn, Presiding Judge.

Following his conviction in a jury trial of three counts of aggravated assault 1 and the denial of his motion for new trial, Juan Mondragon appeals, arguing that the trial court erred in forcing him to proceed to trial without representation after he stated that he did not wish to be represented by his court-appointed counsel. For the reasons which follow, we affirm.

An indigent defendant is entitled only to reasonably effective assistance of counsel, not counsel of his own choosing, and whether to grant a request to replace one court-appointed counsel with another…