United States v. Garcia-Jasso

How courts have described this case

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• holding that attorney did not have an actual conflict of interest because appellant’s claims “rely on speculation and inferences that are unsupported by the record”
• “A district court need only conduct a Garcia hearing if there is an actual conflict of interest.”
• “It must be demonstrated that the attorney made a choice between possible alternative courses of action . . . . If he did not make such a choice, the conflict remained hypothetical.” (quoting Stevenson v. Newsome, 774 F.2d 1558, 1561-62 (11th Cir. 1985))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).