State v. Brown

{35} I respectfully dissent because the majority wrongfully focuses on the status of the attorney representing an indigent instead of the defendant’s indigency to determine whether he is entitled to the basic tools of an adequate defense at State expense. In doing so, the majority puts Brown in the intolerable position of having to choose between his constitutional right to counsel of choice and his constitutional right to the basic tools of an adequate defense, it ignores clear provisions of the Indigent Defense Act, which provide that an indigent defendant is entitled to necessary services…