Opinion ID: 169091
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: M r. G onzales’s Attorneys

Text: On December 9, 2004, the district court appointed counsel to represent M r. Gonzales. On M arch 7, 2005, the district court, at M r. Gonzales’s request, allowed her to withdraw and ordered that M r. G onzales be appointed new counsel. On M arch 8, 2005, the district court appointed new counsel. On August 11, 2005, M r. Gonzales again requested that new counsel be appointed. After reviewing the motion for new counsel and M r. Gonzales’s letter to the court, and -4- after hearing argument from defense counsel and M r. Gonzales, the district court permitted M r. G onzales’s second counsel to withdraw. The district court then ordered that new counsel be appointed and that he or she be fluent in Spanish and be prepared to proceed to jury selection and trial on October 11, 2005. On August 17, 2005, the district court appointed James E. Bierly to represent M r. G onzales.