Luis Triana v. United States

JACOBS, Circuit Judge:

Luis Triana, who was convicted in federal court for offenses arising out of a scheme to import cocaine, appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Korman, /.) denying his motion to vacate his conviction. Triana contends that his Sixth Amendment right to counsel was violated because both his lawyers had conflicts of interest:(i) As to lawyer Luis Beltre, it is apparently undisputed that he was a participant in the same cocaine importation scheme from which Triana’s charges arose.(ii) As to Jerald Levine, Esq., who has…