Scott C. Ciak v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that Teague's \new rule\ ban does not proscribe application of a rule well-established under circuit precedent, even if Supreme Court jurisprudence contains no precise analog
• reversing a conviction on the grounds that \the Supreme Court in Wood v. Georgia stated that Cuyler . . . requires reversal where a trial court neglects its duty to inquire about a particular conflict\
• reversing a con- viction on the grounds that \the Supreme Court in Wood v. Georgia stated that Cuyler . . . requires reversal where a trial court neglects its duty to inquire about a particular conflict\
• defendant’s attorney’s “actual and possible conflicts of interest require automatic reversal of [defendant’s] conviction because the trial court failed to conduct any inquiry”
• in criminal prosecution, counsel sought to impeach a key government witness who was former client in forfeiture case stemming from same prosecution
• possible conflict arising from counsel's pri- or representation of important government witness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).