Chapel v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that “both the conflict of interest and the appearance of impropriety presented by the circumstances . . . render[ed] [attorney’s] representation of [client] impermissible”
• attorney disqualified in capital case due to conflict of interest over his representation of county and its officials in unrelated legal matters
• attorney disqualified in capital case due to conflict of interest over his representation of county and its officials in unrelated legal matters
• attorney disqualified in capital case due to conflict of interest and appearance of impropriety
• “The amount of time and effort expended by an attorney on behalf of a criminal defendant are weighty considerations in determining whether that attorney should be appointed to represent the defendant.”
• “Furthermore, this court has held that when faced with a ‘serious potential for a post-trial claim of ineffectiveness’ a trial court properly refused to allow the defendant to be represented by counsel of his choice.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).