United States v. Peter Cancilla

How courts have described this case

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• conflict of interest when attorney allegedly had engaged in criminal conduct related to that for which the defendant client was standing trial
• court finds that attorney’s conflict of interest may have caused him to tailor cross-examination to avoid possible danger to himself
• counsel may have engaged in criminal activity, similar to charges against client-defendant, involving possible common co-conspirator
• counsel himself engaged in criminal acts which vigorous defense would have exposed
• attorney implicated in crime for which client was on trial
• attorney participated with client’s coconspirators in crime similar to client’s

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).