Legal Opinion
United States v. Turner
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 2, 2010No. 08-2350PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
The district court disqualified Roosevelt Turner’s retained counsel from representing him in this cocaine-conspiracy case because the attorney was also representing an alleged coconspirator in sentencing proceedings. The question for us is whether this violated Turner’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel of his choice.
In February 2005 the government indicted Turner and eight others for conspiring to distribute cocaine in Alton, Illinois. But Turner was not arrested until June 2006, and by that time many of the alleged coconspirators had pleaded guilty and cooperated with…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Cuyler v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Koon v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1996
- Holloway v. ArkansasSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Wheat v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
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3Cited by35 opinions
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