United States v. Elias Martinez

How courts have described this case

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• finding a conflict when an attorney previously represented a witness who testified against a current client in a related matter
• “[W]e cannot be sure that, because [the lawyer] failed to pull some punches [in questioning his former client for the benefit of his current client], he refrained from pulling others.”
• criminal defendant deprived of effective assistance of counsel where his lawyer previously represented government witness, the subject matter of prior representation was related, and counsel learned confidential information during prior representation
• attorney had to cross-examine former client who had been indicted for same drug transactions
• criminal defendant deprived of effective assistance of counsel where his lawyer previously represented government witness, the subject matter of prior representation was related, and counsel learned confidential information during prior representation
• previous representation of prosecution witness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).