State v. Terrence Miller (068558)

Sadly, today the majority holds that the right to effective assistance of counsel guarantees nothing more than the presence *73of an appointed attorney at counsel’s table — even if that attorney met with his indigent client for the first time on the day of trial and had no time to consult with him about his case or prepare with him a defense as the trial began. The majority also exalts the trial calendar over a just trial, affirming a judge’s decision that denied an adjournment to a woefully unprepared appointed attorney who was forced to stumble through a suppression hearing, calling his client…