GIBSON, NYESHIA S., PEOPLE v

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• reasoning that simultaneous representation of a defendant and prosecution witness posed an actual conflict because counsel was “placed in the equivocal position of having to cross-examine his own client as an adverse witness”
• “Here the undisputed facts establish a conflict of interest: Mr. Minix represented two clients concurrently, and when one of them testified at the other’s trial, Mr. Minix had to decide whether to cross-examine.”

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