United States v. Alexander Rogers

How courts have described this case

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• reversing conviction when District Court failed to enquire on notice that counsel for defendant alleging police misconduct was a police commissioner
• reversing conviction when District Court failed to enquire on notice that counsel for defendant alleging police misconduct was a police commissioner
• “If the district court had fulfilled its initial obligation, yet made an inadequate inquiry or obtained a defective waiver, reversal would be appropriate only upon a showing of prejudice or adverse effect.”
• ‘‘[the court] therefore adopts and applies a firm preference for prophylactic inquiry, in which any conflict is identified and either eliminated or knowingly and voluntarily waived [pretrial], over an avoidably delayed and less certain inquiry after the fact’’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).