Commonwealth v. Soffen

How courts have described this case

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

• “right [to counsel] attaches to that stage of the criminal process during which the defendant is deciding how to plead”
• see Miller v. United States, 564 F.2d at 106-107; United States v. DiCarlo, 575 F.2d 952, 955-957 [1st Cir.], cert. denied, 439 U.S. 834 [1978]
• for purposes of a motion to disqualify an expert, \[a]n objecting party has the burden of proving that there exists a conflict of interest warranting disqualification\
• burden lies with person alleging conflict to prove its existence and precise character
• potential conflict of interest is one where “a more tenuous conflict appears”
• “the constitutional guaranty is intended to prevent a defendant’s attorney from being hampered by contemporaneous divided loyalties or by having acquired privileged information which inhibits him in his representation of the defendant”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).