A Sydney solicitor's decision to withdraw from representing two men over an armed carjacking in Albury has led to a lengthy adjournment of their sentencing.
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Giuseppe Gugliandolo and Joshua Daniel Vanderventer were to have been sentenced in the District Court in Albury on Wednesday morning.
But on being notified of solicitor Abbas Soukie's decision to no longer represent the men, Judge Sean Grant had to adjourn their sentence hearings to Griffith on March 30.
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The men are both in jail, bail refused, over the incidents from October, 2019.
Gugliandolo, now 27, wielded a tomahawk and a knife during a string of offences committed across Albury and Lavington.
He had forced a man into a house, cutting his wrist with the knife and demanding his car keys.
The men face sentence on numerous charges.