The Judicial Inquiry Commission has considered your request for an opinion concerning
the following two questions:

“1. Is it a violation of Canon 2(A), Alabama Canons of Judicial Ethics, for a
circuit judge to disregard counsel that has been appointed to represent an
indigent defendant on appeal for trial de novo from district court (by appointing
other counsel before arraignment in circuit court without giving any reason for
change), where appointment was made mandatory in district court by Rule 9,
Alabama Rules of Criminal Procedure-Temporary Rules?