Commonwealth v. Heaney

MOTTO, P.J.,

Before the court for *73disposition is the Commonwealth’s motion to disqualify counsel from joint representation of the co-defendants in the three cases before the court. The dispositive issues are whether the representation of multiple co-defendants within a single, consolidated prosecution is a conflict of interest, per se, and whether such multiple representations acts to a detriment to each client individually.

On or about June 23, 2014 the defendants in the above cases were charged by the New Castle Police Department as conspirators and co-defendants in the “Schmidt heroin…