With her trial looming, a Sullivan County teenaged mom accused of stuffing her 15-month-old daughter inside a trash can where she smothered to death has fired her court-appointed attorney.
Sullivan County Criminal Court Judge James Goodwin on Friday allowed Megan Boswell’s current attorney to withdraw from her case and appointed a new attorney. The move will delay her Feb. 6, 2023, trial.
Boswell sought to fire attorney Brad Sproles at a hearing last month, complaining he was refusing to summon witnesses she believed would help her case. Sproles countered that most of the witnesses she cited would not, in fact, be helpful to her defense, but he stopped short of saying the relationship between him and Boswell was “irretrievably broken” — the legal standard required for a judge to allow a defendant to part ways with an attorney.
But Sproles told Goodwin on Friday that his relationship with Boswell has continued to deteriorate since last month’s hearing.