Lewis v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that there was an actual conflict in the dual representation at trial by the same public defender and that defendant demonstrated prejudice by the divergence of the clients’ interests and also by “what the record reflects [defendant’s] attorney did not do on his behalf.”
• acknowledging that professional conduct regulations “are not intended to create substantive or procedural rights”
• holding that Superior Court Criminal Rule 44(c
• invoking the “interests of justice” exception because, on appeal, defendant raised “important questions” relating to the Sixth Amendment and “fundamental fairness in the administration of justice”; finding violations
• “The Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel provides for representation that is ‘free from conflicts of interest or divided loyalties.’”
• “The Comment to Rule 1.7 [of the Delaware Lawyers’ Rules of Professional Conduct] states ‘[t]he potential for conflict of interest in representing multiple defendants in a criminal case is so grave that ordinarily a lawyer should decline to represent more than one codefendant.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

21 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Campbell v. Burris
  Third Circuit· 2008-02-14· cited 69×
• Swan v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2003-04-09· cited 68×
• Bultron v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2006-03-30· cited 40×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2019-07-08· cited 18×
• Butler v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-06-24· cited 9×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2000-12-22· cited 8×
• Zimmerman v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2010-02-12· cited 7×
• State of Delaware v. Hess.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2014-11-20
• State of Delaware v. Washington.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2015-02-19
• State of Delaware v. Gregg Richardson
  Delaware Court of Common Pleas· 2015-11-20
• State of Delaware v. Luis Reyes
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2016-01-27
• State v. Holmes
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2016-12-15
• Santucci v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2019-11-19
• State v. Pardo
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2019-11-26
• Purnell v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2021-06-17
• Manti Holdings, LLC v. Authentix Acquisition Company, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2021-09-13
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2022-01-11
• State v. Thompson
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2022-05-31
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2023-04-18
• Ryan v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2024-04-18

Cites

50 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Faretta v. California
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 11,585×
• Johnson v. Zerbst
  Supreme Court· 1938-05-31· cited 10,545×
• Glasser v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1942-02-09· cited 10,035×
• Brady v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-04· cited 7,191×
• Cuyler v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-12· cited 5,389×
• Holloway v. Arkansas
  Supreme Court· 1978-04-03· cited 2,478×
• Wheat v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-30· cited 1,962×
• Burger v. Kemp
  Supreme Court· 1987-09-21· cited 1,706×
• Flanagan v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1984-02-21· cited 989×
• United States v. Garcia
  Fifth Circuit· 1975-08-07· cited 327×
• United States v. Francis Curcio and Gus Curcio
  Second Circuit· 1982-05-26· cited 179×
• Hughes v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1981-11-18· cited 172×
• Hooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1980-05-30· cited 167×
• United States v. Dolan, John E.
  Third Circuit· 1978-01-23· cited 149×
• United States v. Rico
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-04-21· cited 140×
• Browne v. Robb
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1990-11-05· cited 134×
• United States v. Peter Leslie and Roland Williams
  Second Circuit· 1997-01-08· cited 126×
• United States v. Crespo de Llano
  Ninth Circuit· 1987-10-26· cited 114×
• United States v. Richard Patrick Carrigan and Robert Edward White
  Second Circuit· 1976-11-03· cited 88×