Judson Ruffin v. Ralph Kemp, Warden

How courts have described this case

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• concluding an actual conflict of interest existed where the attorney represented both defendants Ruffin and Brown and actually offered the testimony of Brown against Ruffin in exchange for a lesser penalty for Brown
• “The case law is clear that actual prejudice need not be shown. Once a habeas petitioner has proved the existence of an actual conflict, only an adverse impact on the attorney’s performance need be shown.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).