United States Third Circuit

Where defense counsel's partnership with the shooter's attorney did not become official until after the trial of the accomplice, the accomplice cannot show actual conflict of interest merely on the basis that the attorneys shared fees or made special appearances for each other.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/08/2001
• Decided 06/29/2001
• Published 06/29/2001

Judges

• Before SLOVITER, ROTH, and RENDELL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Arza R. Feldman,Steven A. Feldman (Argued), Feldman & Feldman Hauppauge, NY, Attorneys for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert L. Cerefice (Argued), Office of County Prosecutor, and Donald C. Campolo, Assistant Attorney General, Acting Essex County Prosecutor, Newark, NJ, Attorneys for Appellees.