SANDPOINT — Standby counsel for a North Idaho man implicated in a home-invasion robbery attempt last fall is asking to be removed from the case.

Bonner County Deputy Public Defender Dan Taylor moved to be dismissed from Randy Carl Eiland’s case because of a “complete breakdown” in the attorney/client relationship.

Eiland, who is representing himself, also wants Taylor removed. Eiland claims in court documents that Taylor and Bonner County Prosecutor Louis Marshall “have conspired together to help the state gain a strategy advantage” in the case.

Taylor said the breakdown is so profound that he is moving for the entire Public Defender’s Office to be removed from the case, according to court documents.

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