Legal Opinion
Daniel Lee Lewis v. D.A. Mayle
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 29, 2004No. 03-16152PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FERGUSON, Circuit Judge:
This case involves a murder that only one of two people could have committed: the appellant, Daniel Lee Lewis, or his nephew, Steven Berg. Lewis was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to an aggregate term of 95 years to life. Berg served as the primary witness for the prosecution. Despite the antagonistic positions of the two men, Lewis was represented at trial by a lawyer who had represented Berg on another matter immediately prior to undertaking Lewis’ defense.
Lewis contends that this successive representation presented a conflict of interest that…
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