United States v. Joseph Vincent Agosto, United States of America v. Deil Otto Gustafson, United States of America v. Joan Lorrain Norris

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• determining that this guarantee of effective assistance of counsel “includes the right to the assistance of counsel unhindered by a conflict of interest”
• considering whether the court adopted an appropriate method to alleviate the effects of a conflict “in the absence of an acceptable waiver”
• discussing counsel’s continued representation of a defendant so long as co-counsel was employed to handle cross-examination of certain witnesses, and so long as defendant executed a waiver
• discussing counsel’s continued representation of a defendant so long as co-counsel was employed to handle cross-examination of certain witnesses, and so long as defendant executed a waiver
• ultimately concluding that defense counsel’s former representation of grand jury witnesses “presents the very remote possibility of a conflict, insufficient to warrant the disqualification of defendant Gustafson’s attorney of choice”
• abrogated on other grounds by Flanagan v. United States, 465 U.S. 259 (1984)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).