United States Second Circuit

Evidentiary hearing is required on defendant's ineffective assistance of counsel claim where defendant alleged that his attorney had a conflict of interest because prosecution was investigating the attorney for criminal violations.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/12/2000
• Published 12/12/2000

Judges

• Before JACOBS, STRAUB, AND SACK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Philip R. Schatz,Wrobel, Markham & Schatz, New York, NY, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter A. Norling, Assistant United Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney, Jo Ann M. Navickas, on the brief) for Respondent-Appellee.