People v. Spreitzer

How courts have described this case

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

• “Effective assistance means assistance by an attorney whose allegiance to his client is not diluted by conflicting interests or inconsistent obligations.”
• the State is not free to make statements which “invite the jurors to enter into some sort of empathetic identification with the victims”
• if a trial court was not apprised of a potential conflict of interest, then a conviction will be reversed only if an actual conflict of interest is established
• convictions reversed in certain per se conflict of interest cases “unless the record reflects that the defendant has been made aware of the conflict and has knowingly waived his right to conflict-free counsel”
• prosecutor's rhetorical question to jurors regarding what the victims' families would think about sparing the defendant's life and sending him back to prison–which defendant viewed as a “country club”–was not grounds for reversal of defendant's death sentence
• cases show association with either prosecution or victim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).