United States Second Circuit

Where a criminal defendant asserts only potential conflicts of interest, but not actual ones, and they involve rather routine discrete problems that arise when an attorney's loyalty is divided among multiple clients, such conflicts can still be knowingly and intelligently waived so as not to constitute the ineffective assistance of counsel.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/04/2003
• Published 04/04/2003

Judges

• KEARSE, Circuit Judge., Before:  KEARSE, SACK, and RAGGI, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Steven L. D'Alessandro, Special Assistant United States Attorney, Brooklyn, New York (Roslynn R. Mauskopf, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Jo Ann M. Navickas, Assistant United States Attorney, Brooklyn, New York, on the brief), for Appellee., Victor Toribio, New York, New York, for Defendant-Appellant.