Threatening lawyers, how many public defenders do you get?

Question

http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2011/02/street_preacher_who_posted_mes.html

If someone gets a public defender and then threatens them, indirectly by saying that their God is going to give them a painful death followed by eternal torment, can the public defender quit? Are the taxpayers then required to get the man another public defender? Is there a limit to how many times this can happen?

I also suspect this man may choose to represent himself, though most who read his rantings would agree he is insane he would not cooperate with a psyc eval. Can he represent himself even though he has no legal training?

This man who has been posting increasingly graphic threats to his ex wives, their families, friends and church members, as well as 2 judges by name and the DA, has finally been captured in Alaska. While in Portland briefly married to a wealthy woman he had not 1 but 2 attorneys she hired for him quit because he could not stop his violent "religeous" rhetoric long enough to have a civil consultation.

I posted about this before, mainly asking why they weren't looking for him, and basically got the answer that it was because he was a harmless nut. Apperantly the authorities don't agree.

Answer 1

Judges in general do not allow more than one change of attorney motion once a case reaches the bench for a number of reasons, including court back-logs and the perception that the defendant is being frivolous or uncooperative. However, once an attorney accepts a case, either paid or as a public defender, he can only be excused as the defendant's counsel by making a motion, and then the judge must grant it. In other words, the attorney can't just quit after he has entered his "motion of appearance as counsel for the defendant," or official notice to the court that he has accepted the case. As far as being allowed to represent oneself in court, whether trained in law or mentally stable, the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution only gives everyone the right to have representation, not the necessity to accept it. Trying to act as ones own lawyer is called representing oneself pro se, or in pro per.

Answer 2

Actually, public defenders get very little money for each case. And it is a flat amount, regardless of the number of hours put in.

Answer 3

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