Legal Opinion
Donald Smith v. Charles E. Anderson
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 13, 1982No. 81-1124PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NATHANIAL R. JONES, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner, Donald Smith, individually and through his attorney, objected to the Wayne County Prosecutor’s day-of-trial motion to consolidate his case with that of another defendant, Abraham Allen, charged with the same offense and represented by the same court-appointed attorney. Smith’s appointed counsel, Jerrold Sherman, represented to the court that he could not effectively represent both Smith and Allen in a joint trial due to the risk of conflicting interests between the two defendants. The district court held that by requiring joint representation at…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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- Holloway v. ArkansasSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
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