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Counsel, Despite Vacation Plans, Held Effective in Plea-Bargain
A state appeal panel has held that a murder defendant, who claimed his vacation-bound lawyer was pushing him to agree to a plea bargain, was not denied effective representation when barred from changing lawyers on the eve of trial.
The defendant...