In Re Grand Jury Proceedings. Appeal of John Doe

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• holding that an actual and a \realistic potential for conflict of interest ... may override a defendant's Sixth Amendment right freely to choose his lawyer\
• finding district court should not have disqualified attorney in the absence of evidence suggesting that attorney’s former client, an immunized witness on a related matter, had any incriminating or confidential information generating actual or serious potential conflict
• finding no “serious potential for conflict” justifying disqualification in dual representation case where only a tenuous inferential relationship between the attorney’s former client, an immunized witness, and his current client, the object of the grand jury’s investigation, existed
• disqualification reversed where both the present client and the past client waived any right to conflict-free representation and court found no direct link between clients
• cited as holding that a district court should not have disqualified an attorney in the absence of evidence suggesting that the attorney’s former client, an immunized witness, had any incriminating or confidential information generating an actual or serious potential conflict

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