People ex rel. Feliz v. Smith

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• noting that recording of interrogation of murder suspect would have avoided conflict of interest with attorney witness and thereby avoided necessity for retrial
• no prejudice when defense counsel declined to impeach witness he had previously represented when testimony “attempted to minimize” guilt of defendant and was “clearly helpful” to defense
• “The defendant’s Sixth Amendment and art. 12 rights to the effective assistance of counsel did not attach until . . . arraignment”
• \The defendant's Sixth Amendment and art. 12 rights to the effective assistance of counsel did not attach until . . . arraignment\
• \[t]hat defense counsel 'ought' to testify concerning what transpired at her client's interview with the police soon became 'obvious'\
• defense counsel was necessary witness because she was only person who could refute Commonwealth's version of defendant's statement to police

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).