Dill v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was convicted in a jury trial of five counts of violation of the Georgia Controlled Substances Act. Defendant then retained another attorney who filed a motion for new trial and argued that defendant’s trial counsel was ineffective. This appeal followed the denial of defendant’s motion for new trial. Held:

In his sole enumeration, defendant contends that he “was denied his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel due to his [trial] attorney’s role as ‘family’ lawyer to the [State’s] informant in his case.”

“ ‘The reason a conflict of interests…