United States Fifth Circuit

Defendant's conviction, pursuant to a guilty plea to violations of the Controlled Substances Act is affirmed over claims that his attorney below labored under conflicts of interest stemming from the attorney-s representation of defendant's wife and from the attorney-s alleged complicity in defendant-s flight from the jurisdiction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/06/2006
• Published 12/07/2006

Judges

• MARTINEZ, District Judge:, Before WIENER and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges, and MARTINEZ, District Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Michelle Palacios, McAllen, TX, James Lee Turner, Asst. U.S. Atty., Houston, TX, Oscar Ponce (argued), Brownsville, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Jon Karl Schmid (argued), Law Office of Jon Karl Schmid, Brownsville, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.