Witzel v. State

Travelers in deserts report seeing mirages in the distance. As they are approached they recede or become blurred and fuzzy in outline. When they are reached, they vanish. The arguments of the defendant here have this exact dissolving quality. When you get close enough to them, they have disappeared.

One for two.

Defendant claims that because the attorney he retained represented both himself and one Matthew Bar-anski on charges involving burglary and theft from the Scroggins garage, a conflict of interest arose which de nied Mm the effective assistance of counsel. No actual conflict of interest…