State v. Dewise
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The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's convictions of deliberate homicide and attempted deliberate homicide, holding that the district court did not err in denying Defendant's motion for new counsel.
Defendant was convicted of murdering his estranged wife and attempting to murder her roommate. The district court imposed a 100-year sentence for each count, to run consecutively, and imposed a ten-year consecutive weapon enhancement for each offense. On appeal, Defendant argued that the district court abused its discretion when it concluded that Defendant's complaints regarding his counsel did not warrant a hearing on his motion to substitute counsel. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying Defendant's request to substitute counsel.
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