Proper-standard-for-substituting-retained-counsel

QUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEW What is the proper standard for evaluating a defendant’s request to exercise his or her Sixth Amendment right to substitute retained counsel of choice, when the substitution may delay the trial? Otherwise said, does the Ninth Circuit’s outlier rule — which collapses the distinction between the right to counsel of choice and the right to effective assistance of counsel — conflict with this Court’s controlling precedent? --prefix-