United States v. Magtouf Ben Amor Kliti, Also Known as Omar

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• providing that “[wjhen faced with an attorney as a sworn or an unsworn witness, the proper recourse is to disqualify the attorney, not to exclude the testimony.”
• “When the trial court knows or reasonably should know of the possibility of a conflict of interest ... and does not conduct this initial inquiry, reversal of a defendant’s conviction is automatic.”
• actual conflict where attorney faced the choice of testifying on behalf of his client or not presenting evidence of an exculpatory statement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).