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· 2/23/1996

United States Ex Rel. Green v. Washington

Citations

  • 917 F. Supp. 1238
  • 1996 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 2668
  • 1996 WL 77809

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that excessive caseload forcing public defender to choose from among rights of his various clients inevitably creates a conflict of interest
  • “When an agency such as [the Office of the State Appellate Defender] is appointed to more cases than it can timely handle, . . . conflicts of interest are necessarily created as a surfeit of clients compete for the scarce resources of available attorney time and attention.”

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Judges: Shadur

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