United States Second Circuit

Prior criminal activity between defendant and his pre-trial attorney was relevant to the conduct for which the defendant was convicted, creating a conflict of interest which deprived the defendant of his Sixth Amendment right to counsel.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/10/2004
• Published 06/10/2004

Judges

• STRAUB, Circuit Judge:, Before:  STRAUB, POOLER, and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Gary Greenwald,Greenwald Law Offices, Chester, N.Y. (Jacqueline Ricciani, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant., Joseph M. Guerra, III, Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of New York (James P. Kennedy, Jr., Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel;  Michael A. Battle, United States Attorney, on the brief), Buffalo, NY, for Appellee.