GRANADA INSURANCE COMPANY v. CENTRAL FLORIDA MEDICAL AND CHIROPRACTIC CENTER, INC. A/A/O JOHN MCDONALD

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• holding that a petitioner must establish that the alternative defense strategy was inherently in conflict with or not undertaken due to the attorney’s other loyalties or interests
• holding that a petitioner must establish that the alternative defense strategy was inherently in conflict with or not undertaken due to the attorney’s other loyalties or interests
• explaining that the historical facts underlying conflict of interest conclusion are subject to the presumption of correctness
• explaining that the petitioner “must show some link” between the conflict of interest and a reasonable, but foregone, de- fense strategy (citation omitted)
• crediting lawyer's testimony on link issue in circumstances similar to those in Stephens
• noting the defendant should identify some “plausible alternative defense strategy or tactic that might have been pursued” (internal quotation marks and alterations omitted)

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