withdrawal by public defender

[A. Timmer]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Arizona

What does it mean when the public defender withdraws from a case prior to meeting the client and the client is in jail awaiting lawyer assignment for a pre-trial?What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?

 

[justalayman]

it would mean that lawyer is not going to represent him.

If you are asking why a lawyer would refuse to represent a person, that is different. It could be any number of reasons.

Maybe they know this person from someplace and felt they cannot represent the defendant properly due to something they know about the defendant. Maybe their grandma in Alaska took ill and they are going to see her.

Like I said, there a numerous reasons they could quit the case. I have no way of knowing which one it is.