United States v. Falzone

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “the defendant can effectively waive his right to conflict-free counsel”; however the waiver “must not only be voluntary, but also must be a knowing and intelligent relinquishment of his right to a conflict-free attorney” (citation omitted)
• disqualifying an attorney who had a longstanding attorney-client relationship with a state’s witness, the attorney would have needed to discredit that client at trial, and the client refused to waive his attorney-client privilege
• extensive history between lawyer and former client that will assist lawyer in cross-examination of former client constitutes a substantial relationship between the former client’s matters and the current matter
• fact that attorney-client relationship was short-term reduced prejudice associated with disqualification

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).