A Trump employee who monitored security cameras at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate abruptly retracted his earlier grand jury testimony and implicated Trump and others in obstruction of justice just after switching from an attorney paid for by a Trump political action committee to a lawyer from the federal defender’s office in Washington, prosecutors said in a court filing Tuesday.
To prevent appeals based on inadequate legal representation. There’s some procedure to make sure the defendant knows about his attorney’s potential conflicts of interest and allow him to waive the right to such an appeal if he wants to keep that attorney.