People v. Arreguin

This appeal is taken by the defendant, Richard Arreguin, from his conviction, following a jury trial, of the offense of criminal damage to property in excess of $150. The defendant was sentenced to a term of three years imprisonment.

On appeal the first issue raised by the defendant is whether his conviction should be reversed because a per se conflict of interests existed where his counsel’s law firm was retained by a hospital which was the defendant’s victim in an unrelated case then pending against the defendant and where an official of that hospital testified in aggravation against the…