James McConico Jr. v. State of Alabama, John E. Nagle

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• finding that the district court erred in concluding that representation was successive when the attorney’s representation of clients overlapped for several months
• “A petitioner need not show that the result of the trial would have been different without the. conflict of interest, only that the conflict had some adverse effect on counsel’s performance.”
• “Appellant must . . . demonstrate that the attorney made a choice between possible alternative courses of action . . . helpful to one client but harmful to the other.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).