Opinion
2:18cr00242
01-08-2020
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. DONTE TAYLOR
Electronic Filing
MEMORANDUM ORDER
AND NOW, this 8 day of January, 2020, upon due consideration of defendant Dante Taylor's pro se motion to disqualify counsel, IT IS ORDERED that [115] the motion be, and the same hereby is, denied.
The court has carefully considered each of the purported shortcomings highlighted by defendant in support of his motion and has considered and ruled on the substantive grounds underlying each of those shortcomings in its rulings on defendant's pro se motions issued on this date. At the very least, the matters that defendant contends counsel should have further pursued and/or filed motions on are meritless. The lack of merit in these matters cannot be cured with the benefit of counsel. As a result, counsel cannot be faulted for failing to pursue matters that are frivolous and/or consist of legal non-sense. And defendant does not have the freedom to change lawyers at his whim simply because counsel will not invest time in and/or present such matters to the court. Consequently, his motion to disqualify counsel properly has been denied.
s/David Stewart Cercone
David Stewart Cercone
Senior United States District Judge cc: Shanicka L. Kennedy, AUSA
James J. Brink, Esquire
Robert E. Mielnicki, Esquire
United States Marshal
(Via CM/ECF Electronic Mail)
Donte Taylor
DOC & POD Number 116155
Allegheny County Jail
950 2 Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15219-3100
(Via United States Postal Service Mail)