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Kansas bomb suspect's attorneys ask to be let go from case
Source: Associated Press
Kansas bomb suspect's attorneys ask to be let go from case
By ROXANA HEGEMAN
Mar. 20, 2017 2:40 PM EDT
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The court-appointed attorneys for a man accused of plotting to bomb a Kansas apartment complex filled with Somali immigrants asked a judge to let them withdraw from the case, saying in a filing Monday that they have lost their client's trust and cannot satisfy his expectations.
The request from attorneys for Patrick Stein comes in the wake of last week's arraignment on a revised indictment. Stein told the magistrate judge at that time he was unwilling to be represented by attorneys Edward Robinson and Kristen Wheeler. Stein said during the hearing that they were providing "ineffective assistance of counsel," and that he wanted to hire his own attorney.
U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren has now scheduled a hearing Tuesday on the attorney matter.
Prosecutors allege Stein and co-defendants Gavin Wright and Curtis Allen conspired to detonate truck bombs at a 100-unit apartment complex where Somali immigrants live in Garden City in western Kansas. The attack was planned to occur the day after the November election.
The three Kansas men had earlier pleaded not guilty to conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction, and a revised indictment last week added new charges against them alleging they plotted for months last year to "injure, oppress, threaten and intimate" Somalis who lived at the complex. Wright also is charged with lying to the FBI, while Allen and Stein face gun charges.
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By ROXANA HEGEMAN
Mar. 20, 2017 2:40 PM EDT
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The court-appointed attorneys for a man accused of plotting to bomb a Kansas apartment complex filled with Somali immigrants asked a judge to let them withdraw from the case, saying in a filing Monday that they have lost their client's trust and cannot satisfy his expectations.
The request from attorneys for Patrick Stein comes in the wake of last week's arraignment on a revised indictment. Stein told the magistrate judge at that time he was unwilling to be represented by attorneys Edward Robinson and Kristen Wheeler. Stein said during the hearing that they were providing "ineffective assistance of counsel," and that he wanted to hire his own attorney.
U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren has now scheduled a hearing Tuesday on the attorney matter.
Prosecutors allege Stein and co-defendants Gavin Wright and Curtis Allen conspired to detonate truck bombs at a 100-unit apartment complex where Somali immigrants live in Garden City in western Kansas. The attack was planned to occur the day after the November election.
The three Kansas men had earlier pleaded not guilty to conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction, and a revised indictment last week added new charges against them alleging they plotted for months last year to "injure, oppress, threaten and intimate" Somalis who lived at the complex. Wright also is charged with lying to the FBI, while Allen and Stein face gun charges.
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Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/b3aeb82840ef44c981801e236c1d008d/kansas-bomb-suspects-attorneys-ask-be-let-go-case
