Weeks v. State

Pope, Judge.

Defendant Willie Weeks was found guilty by a jury of one count of racketeering and five counts of commercial gambling. On appeal he argues that he was denied effective assistance of counsel because his retained counsel previously represented one of the State’s witnesses, and that his attorney’s duty of confidentiality to his former client prevented him from conducting a thorough and sifting cross-examination of the witness.

The record shows that defense counsel’s representation of the witness had ended in 1985, when the witness entered a plea of guilty to the charges against him.…