Hanna v. State

OPINION

MATTINGLY, Judge

Thomas Hanna and five co-defendants (collectively, the defendants) appeal a trial court order granting the State’s motion to disqualify the counsel jointly retained by the defendants and directing each defendant to secure individual representation. The defendants raise a single issue, 1 which we restate as whether the trial court properly disqualified defense counsel on the ground that the joint representation was inherently in conflict with the oath of counsel, even though each defendant waived, after a hearing before a magistrate and a meeting with an independent…