Legal Opinion
James McConico Jr. v. State of Alabama, John E. Nagle
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided December 27, 1990No. 90-7014PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:
A defendant’s lawyer, laboring under a conflict of interest, may deprive a defendant of the sixth amendment right to counsel during a criminal trial. The United States Supreme Court has stated that counsel is constitutionally ineffective if: 1) counsel faced an actual conflict of interest, and 2) that conflict “adversely affected” counsel’s representation of the defendant. Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 692, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 2067, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984) (quoting Cuyler v. Sullivan, 446 U.S. 835, 350, 348, 100 S.Ct. 1708, 1719, 1718, 64 L.Ed.2d 333 (1980));…
2Cases cited29 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Larry Bonner v. City of Prichard, AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1981
- Cuyler v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Holloway v. ArkansasSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Daniel Loconte v. Richard Dugger, Robert A. ButterworthCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1988
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3Cited by37 opinions
- Robert Moss (99-1951 01-1797) and Ronald Kohn (01-1610) v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2003
- Varnall Weeks v. Charlie E. Jones, Warden, Holman State Prison, James H. Evans, Attorney General for the State of AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1994
- Brownlee v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1995
- Pamela Lynn Perillo v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional DivisionCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2000
- Eric Lynn Ferrell v. Hilton HallCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2011
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