Serafin Castillo v. United States

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• holding involun- tary a defendant’s waiver of his constitutional right to separate counsel from codefendant where waiver was not translated into Spanish and there was insufficient evidence in record to show that defendant knew enough English to understand the waiver
• joint representation of codefendants and attorney allegedly told one codefendant not to testify because his testimony would hurt the other codefendant’s case
• joint representation of codefendants and attorney allegedly told one codefendant not to testify because his testimony would hurt the other codefendant's case

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