Commonwealth v. Duffy

How courts have described this case

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• conflict of interest where alleged at trial that defense counsel was in receipt of stolen property
• counsel cannot be impartial where he knew prosecution witness would claim that counsel would receive stolen guns from defendant as payment for legal services and thus had a personal stake in defendant’s acquittal
• potential prejudice to defendant if allegation was elicited at trial that trial counsel was to receive stolen guns (fruits of the crime) as payment for representation created insurmountable conflict of interest
• “If a conflict of interest, i.e., a conflict between counsel’s and his client’s interests, is here established, we believe relief must be granted without regard to a showing of harm.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. King
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-11-26· cited 238×
• United States v. Anthony Provenzano, Stephen Andretta, and Thomas Andretta
  Third Circuit· 1980-05-08· cited 223×
• Commonwealth v. Shraiar
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-03-06· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Lopez
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-08-20· cited 33×
• United States v. Stout
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1989-10-11· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Stirk
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1983-06-30· cited 9×
• Morales v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-09-08· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Yannariello
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-10-05· cited 2×
• United States v. Watkins
  Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals· 2019-02-21

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Glasser v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1942-02-09· cited 10,035×
• Holloway v. Arkansas
  Supreme Court· 1978-04-03· cited 2,478×
• Von Moltke v. Gillies
  Supreme Court· 1948-01-19· cited 1,645×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Whitling v. Russell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-01-02· cited 116×
• United States v. Gregory Hurt
  D.C. Circuit· 1976-04-22· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Wilson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-04-16· cited 70×
• United States Ex Rel. Simon v. Murphy
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1972-10-25· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Duffy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-02· cited 6×