Okeani v. Superior Court

How courts have described this case

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• public defender's representation of defendant was directly adverse to office's representation of alleged victim in unrelated matter, and office could not ethically represent both clients
• “The conflict of interest is not alleviated’by the fact that defendant and the victim were represented by different lawyers with the Public Defender’s Office.”
• “The conflict of interest is not alleviated by the fact that defendant and the victim were represented by different lawyers within the Public Defender’s Office.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).