Collins v. State

Smith, Chief Judge.

Terry Collins was found guilty by a Glynn County jury of trafficking in cocaine. His motion for new trial was denied, and he appeals, asserting that his motion for continuance should have been granted and that he was denied his right to counsel. We disagree and affirm.

During the pretrial phase, Collins was represented by three privately retained attorneys, one of whom was a Florida attorney admitted pro hac vice on Collins’s behalf. Ten days before trial, at the beginning of a motions hearing, Collins’s counsel announced that Collins had fired him and his co-counsel. The…