Jose Angel Patlan v. The State of Florida

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defense counsel's unfamiliarity with his client's case transgressed performance standard
• stating that standard of review for questions of law and mixed questions of fact and law allows reviewing court to substitute its judgment for that of lower court
• \The evil ... is in what the advocate finds himself compelled to refrain from doing\
• “when counsel is confronted with an actual conflict of interest, prejudice must be presumed, and except under the most extraordinary circumstances, the error cannot be considered harmless”
• defendant need not show adverse effect upon representation if defendant demonstrates actual conflict
• “adversely affected” language in Cuyler does not alter this Circuit’s “actual conflict” standard

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