Rule 123 - Public Defenders Office ProhibitionThe Public Defender and all full-time and part-time attorneys appointed to and employed in that office, together with all their partners, associates, employees and employers, are prohibited from representing on a private basis:
(a) any defendant in any criminal proceeding who has at anytime during the pendency of the case made application for representation by the Public Defender's Office or in which proceeding any co-defendant has made such application; and(b) any defendant then being represented on any other proceeding through the Public Defender's Office. This prohibition shall not apply where the defendant initially made application to and retained said attorney or his partner, associate, employee or employer, on a private basis prior to application with the Public Defender's Office.
(ii)* In all court cases counsel shall be assigned by the Public Defender's Office to those types of cases identified at 16 P.S. § 9960.6 as well as summary appeals where there is a likelihood that imprisonment might be imposed.(iii) In cases of conflict in the Public Defender's Office, the Court Administrator, upon Court Order, shall assign counsel to represent defendant from those attorneys appointed to handle all conflicts cases (see 16 P.S. § 9960.7).