Supreme Court of Illinois

Order disqualifying defendants' counsel on conflict of interest grounds is affirmed where the trial court did not abuse its discretion as it: 1) could reasonably conclude that there was at least a serious potential for conflict; 2) applied legally correct criteria as it weighed the interests that were threatened by the conflict; and 3) reasonably concluded that the factors favoring disqualification overcame the presumption in favor of counsel of choice.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/01/2004
• Published 04/01/2004

Judges

• Justice GARMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James E. Ryan and Lisa Madigan, Attorneys General, Springfield, and Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (William L. Browers, Lisa Hoffman and Linda D. Woloshin, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, and Renee Goldfarb, Alan J. Spellberg, Tracey Annen, James P. McKay, Jr., Veronica Calderon Malavia and Sari London, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert A. Novelle, of Serpico, Novelle & Navigato, Ltd., Chicago (Timothy R. Roellig, of counsel), for appellees.