United States v. Armin Ziegenhagen
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
This case comes before the court on Defendant-Appellant Armin Ziegenhagen’s pro se “Motion for Change of Counsel, Setting Aside Brief, Extension of Time to Proceed In Forma Pauperis, and for Transcript. 1 Also before the court are the briefs, including a reply brief, from the parties in this direct criminal appeal. For the reasons below, we remand to the district court for an evidentiary hearing to consider whether the conflict of interest in this case denied Ziegenhagen the right to fair representation or if Ziegenhagen waived the conflict.
I. Background
On November 8,…
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