Commonwealth v. Willis

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• because of inherent conflict of loyalties to one's clients and to one's associates, we can not assume that present counsel will fully explore inadequacy of prior counsel's representation
• because of inherent conflict of loyalties to one’s clients and to one’s associates, we can not assume that present counsel will fully explore inadequacy of prior counsel’s representation
• it is incumbent upon new counsel to review completely the stewardship of his predecessor and all arguable instances of ineffective assistance, whether or not on the trial record, and raise it at the first opportunity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Lentz
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1994-10-12· cited 173×
• People v. Banks
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1987-11-23· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Glaze
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-09-21· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-16· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-03-22· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Flynn
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-02-19· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Delker
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-11-12· cited 5×