Legal Opinion
United States v. Ricardo M. Infante
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 21, 2005No. 02-50665PublishedCited by 138 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Chief Judge:
Defendant-Appellant Ricardo Macias Infante appeals his conviction and sentence for conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute marijuana, conspiracy to import marijuana, and possession with intent to distribute marijuana. For the following reasons, we VACATE and REMAND to the district court for a determination on the question whether Infante’s trial counsel’s conflict of interest adversely affected his representation.
I. BACKGROUND
By a grand jury indictment returned on January 9, 2001, Defendant-Appellant Ricardo Infante and four co-defendants 1 were…
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