Legal Opinion
Anthony Armienti v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 12, 2000No. 2000PublishedCited by 105 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BACKGROUND
SACK, Circuit Judge:
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Sterling Johnson, Jr., Judge) denied petitioner’s ha-beas corpus petition without holding an evidentiary hearing. The petition had been brought pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 on the grounds that petitioner’s trial counsel represented petitioner while laboring under a conflict of interest. We hold that an evidentiary hearing was required.
Vacated and remanded for an eviden-tiary hearing as to whether petitioner’s attorney’s alleged conflict of interest constituted an actual conflict that adversely…
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