Legal Question in Criminal Law in Iowa

I was appointed a lawyer who failed to even ask for a bond reduction while I was in jail for two months. Then she was appointed as guardian ad litem to a minor child of a co-defendent. I asked the court to remove her from my case, which they did. Her replacement was on file as my attorney for about 48 hours when he decided that the person I chose the wrong person to jail me out of jail and that I was hurting my case by having done so. The bond money came in the form of a check, written on a business account of a privately retained lawyer of a friend. He withdrew from my case and I am now on my third lawyer. I have a pretrial conference in eleven days. This new attorney has not returned two phone calls and I know for fact the state has digital recordings they plan to use as evidence that I haven't had access to and assume would take a bit of time to go over. Should I demand yet another attorney? Or would I be just as doomed to try to represent myself from here on out? I can't see how I could do a worse job considering I'd been on the docket for a plea hearing before I had a pretrail, and in the absence of even trial information or minutes of testimony. These are felony charges, one requiring a mandatory minimum prison sentence if convicted. Thank you for your response and assistance.


Asked on 1/07/11, 4:13 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Todd Miler Miler Law Firm

It is impossible for me to say whether the attorneys have done their job appropriately from just a simple reading of the paragraph you have written. You do have a Constitutional right to counsel. If you do not feel that the attorney is doing his/her job, you can bring it to the Court's attention by filing something in writing.

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Answered on 1/13/11, 5:56 am


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