LOUIS H. POLLAK, District Judge, dissenting: I subscribe to the court’s pronouncement that a trial judge’s decision to deny a continuance to permit a criminal defendant to secure new counsel should not be overturned unless the trial judge’s decision was an abuse of discretion. I also subscribe to the court’s conclusion that, in the case under review, a continuance should have been granted. But I respectfully dis…
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