trial postponed? Trial is in two day's and my lawyer is withdrawing unless I can pay her five thousand dollars, can I have the trial postponed until I find different representation? We already had a public defender at the beginning of this case, which started two years ago, we hired our own lawyer after getting nowhere with P.D. and now she wants 5 grand just to appear at our trial. She told us 4 day's before trial, we haven't even prepped for trial, please....any help would be greatly appreciated.
We had a verbal and signed agreement w/her as to how we would pay, she was willing to accept small payments and because we didn't make a payment this month, she told us she is not going to appear unless she get's 1,000 dollar's /day for each day of the trial (5 day's).Her reason to the court for withdrawing is certainly going to be because of non-payment of services but we have paid her several payment's and just made another $50.00 payment 2 day's before she told us this. Which in the end would have added up to the "small payments" she expected during the month. She told us that it has come down to "her needing the money before she would represent us" even though her involvement in the case has been very little. The first time she appeared in court for us, we rode with her, paid for gas, and bought her lunch. The second time, we gave her $100.00, and the third time she appeared by phone. We made a couple of other small payments in between, but it was obviously not enough.
We had a verbal and signed agreement w/her as to how we would pay, she was willing to accept small payments and because we didn't make a payment this month, she told us she is not going to appear unless she get's 1,000 dollar's /day for each day of the trial (5 day's).Her reason to the court for withdrawing is certainly going to be because of non-payment of services but we have paid her several payment's and just made another $50.00 payment 2 day's before she told us this. Which in the end would have added up to the "small payments" she expected during the month. She told us that it has come down to "her needing the money before she would represent us" even though her involvement in the case has been very little. The first time she appeared in court for us, we rode with her, paid for gas, and bought her lunch. The second time, we gave her $100.00, and the third time she appeared by phone. We made a couple of other small payments in between, but it was obviously not enough.