You need to tell the court that your public defender has not talked to you and ask the court to relieve the PD's office and appoint other counsel. You can make a motion for ineffective assistance of counsel during your trial if you feel that your lawyer is not performing their duties.Instead, he must show that his lawyer did not know what he or she was doing and that this bad lawyering materially affected the case. Inneffective assistance of counsel claims have to pass two hurdles in the 11.07 writ process and federal appeals. Ineffective lawyering compounds each of the causes of wrongful convictions listed in the chart above. For a guilty verdict in a criminal trial. To be sustained, an allegation of ineffective assistance of counsel must be firmly founded and affirmatively demonstrated in the record. In the instant case, appellant filed a motion for new trial alleging insufficient evidence and ineffective assistance of counsel. Raising the issue earlier" due to ineffective assistance from counsel. In the instant case, appellant filed a motion for new trial alleging insufficient evidence and ineffective assistance of counsel.