United States v. Luke Jones

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• explaining that disagreement over legal tactics is insufficient to give rise to an actual conflict
• finding it was objectively reasonable for an attorney to admit his client shot the victim but argue the shooting was unrelated to a drug conspiracy
• finding no prejudicial spillover where evidence was discrete as to each count and evidence supporting the convicted counts was “more than adequate”
• “A prosecutor should seek or file criminal charges only if the prosecutor reasonably believes . . . that the decision to charge is in the interests of justice.”
• “As the only basis asserted by [defendant] for his claim that his attorneys had a conflict of interest is that he and they disagreed as to tactics, he has not shown an actual conflict of interest.”
• “As the only basis asserted by Jones for his claim that his attorneys had a conflict of interest is that he and they disagreed as to tactics, he has not shown an actual conflict of interest.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).