Howell v. State

Danny P. Rodgers, a state-salaried, full-time Managing Public Defender for the Eighth Judicial District North, was appointed by the trial court to represent appellant Marlon Donte Howell, an indigent defendant, in this criminal case. Following a trial by jury, Howell was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. A notice of appeal from the judgment was timely filed, and a partial record has been lodged with our clerk.

Mr. Rodgers now asks this court to relieve him as counsel for Howell in this appeal. As a state-salaried, full-time Managing Public Defender…