Staggs v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• ordering a new trial where attorney simultaneously represented a defendant and the defendants father, mother, and brother, all of whom were charged as accessories after the fact
• “An actual conflict of interest occurs where an attorney owes a duty to a party whose interests are adverse to the defendant’s”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Lomax v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2008-07-28· cited 28×
• Jordan v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2013-12-11· cited 22×
• State v. Sterling
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2008-05-05· cited 4×
• Ramirez v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2017-01-05· cited 4×
• Gonzales v. State
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2015-05-13· cited 1×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Cuyler v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-12· cited 5,389×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2001-08-13· cited 13×
• Fuller v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2001-12-17· cited 4×
• In Re Devine
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2001-07-23· cited 3×