United States v. Moore

Opinion of the Court

ROBERT E. Quinn, Chief Judge:

The accused contends that he was denied the effective assistance of counsel because his lawyer previously represented the two principal witnesses for the prosecution. Among other things he alleges that one of the Government witnesses who was a junior drill instructor in his platoon unqualifiedly testified in his own earlier trial that he had never received any money or contribution from the recruits in the platoon. However, at the accused’s trial he testified that with the knowledge of the accused, who was the senior drill instructor, he had…