Valente v. Seiden

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Canfield, J.), entered January 8, 1996 in Rensselaer County, which granted Peter J. Scagnelli’s application for leave to withdraw as counsel for defendant.

*800Attorney Peter J. Scagnelli was retained by defendant to represent him in this action alleging false arrest, malicious prosecution and defamation. During the course of this representation, Scagnelli realized that confidences which had been revealed to him by defendant’s son, whom he was representing in an unrelated matter, created a potential or actual conflict of interest in his representation of…