Jones, J. v. Erie Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• stating that an “attorney’s . . . prior representation of a trial witness, [is] generally waivable.”
• observing that “lesser conflicts, such as an 6 1 attorney’s representation of two or more defendants or his prior representation of 2 a trial witness, are generally waivable”
• permitting waiver even where defendant may have to “abandon a particular defense or line of questioning”
• “The courts do, of course, retain discretion to reject a defendant’s knowing and intelligent waiver when his attorney’s conflict jeopardizes the integrity of judicial proceedings.”
• disqualification not necessary where counsel no longer represented client with potentially adverse interests
• “Where the right to counsel of choice conflicts with the right to an attorney of undivided loyalty, the choice as to which right is to take precedence must generally be left to the defendant and not dictated by the government.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).