United States Tenth Circuit

Defendant's tax fraud conviction is affirmed where the disqualification of defendant's counsel did not violate his right to counsel under the Sixth Amendment because the district court reasonably assessed the problems that could arise from counsel's continued representation of defendant.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/19/2009
• Published 10/19/2009

Judges

• HARTZ, Circuit Judge., Before BRISCOE, McKAY, and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Rodney R. Parker (Max D. Wheeler and Sam Harkness, with him on the briefs), of Snow, Christensen & Martineau, Salt Lake City, UT, for Defendant-Appellant., Jennifer Levin Eichhorn, Attorney, Tax Division, (John A. DiCicco, Acting Assistant Attorney General;  Alan Hechtkopf, Karen Quesnel, Gregory Victor Davis, Attorneys, Tax Division, with her on the brief) United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Plaintiff-Appellee.