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I need to fire my court appointed attorney

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You would have to file a petition with the court for a hearing. At that that hearing, you would need to justify your reasons for wanting to fire your current attorney and ask them to appoint a replacement for you.

And THAT is the reason why we keep asking you to tell us why you think your attorney isn't doing their job when they refuse to file that motion to suppress on your behalf. Unless you can prove that your attorney is ineffective and not performing their job to the best of their abilities, and not doing what is appropriate to represent your best interests, it won't even do any good to make the request - because the judge will see it simply as a personality conflict, and NOT justification to change attorneys for you.

So, when you asked your attorney why they refuse to file this motion to suppress, what exactly did they say to you?

As we keep telling you, the attorney is the legal professional here. Just because you think something might work, the attorney has a better working knowledge of the process than you think you do. If they tell you it won't work, it probably won't. Of course, you can find the money to get advice from a different attorney yourself, but you risk losing your money and finding the answer exactly the same as what you have already gotten.
Well to this date I have tried to be patient but still my attorney is not working out. I cant get an answer out of him. Every time I calll him when he tells me to he is either on his way to some other appointment or doesnt answer the phone at all. I have only actually talked to him twice about my case.
So I guess I'm screwed. At least if I stay with him. Any more bright ideas from the think tank here? Do I still have no just reason for wanting a new attorney???/
 


Zigner

Senior Member, Non-Attorney
Well to this date I have tried to be patient but still my attorney is not working out. I cant get an answer out of him. Every time I calll him when he tells me to he is either on his way to some other appointment or doesnt answer the phone at all. I have only actually talked to him twice about my case.
So I guess I'm screwed. At least if I stay with him. Any more bright ideas from the think tank here? Do I still have no just reason for wanting a new attorney???/
It's really quite simple. Hire your own attorney.
 

tranquility

Senior Member
It's quite clear the OP does not know how to read a case if he is relying on the case mentioned to support suppression of evidence based on informant reliability. The issue on the case had to do with required information in a search warrant. The issue in the case, the law the case made, had nothing really to do with the reliability of the witness, but on the facts listed in the affidavit. What was the holding?

(From the summary.)
The affidavit for search warrant did not establish timely probable cause
because it stated when the officer received the tip, not when the informant
observed the criminal activity. Accordingly, the search warrant did not satisfy the
requirements of the W ashington State Constitution article I, section 7, and the trial
court properly suppressed evidence obtained in the search.
My guess is that such a holding does not much help the OP.
 

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