Opinion ID: 1351343
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: The hearing before the penalty phase.

Text: (7) After the guilt trial, defendant and Attorney Small requested that Roth be appointed to serve at the penalty trial. (It is not clear whether Roth would be an additional attorney, replace Small, or replace Jordan.) The motion pointed out that the initial reason for not appointing Roth no longer existed, since Roth would not be a witness at the penalty trial. The judge denied the motion as dilatory, since it would have required a continuance of the penalty trial. As in the previous motion, defendant expressed a general distrust of Jordan and Small  indeed of any attorney except Roth  but did not give any basis for his feelings. He hints that he could not disclose what really happened at the time of the killings to Jordan and Small, but did not explain why, nor in what respect the true story would have aided his defense. We see no error in the court's denial of the motion.