Legal Opinion
United States v. Weaver
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided October 5, 2001No. 00-3064PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge HENDERSON.
KAREN LeCRAFT HENDERSON, Circuit Judge:
Gerald W. Weaver filed a petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 seeking to have his guilty plea set aside on the ground that his former lawyer, R. Kenneth Mundy, had had a conflict of interest. The district court concluded that, while Mundy’s simultaneous representation of Weaver and of then U.S. Rep. Daniel D. Rostenkowski, against whom Weaver was a potential witness, created a conflict, Weaver had not shown the necessary prejudice to establish an ineffective assistance of counsel claim. See United…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Cuyler v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Hill v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- United States v. Gregory M. ThomasCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1997
- United States v. Edward Tyrone FarleyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1995
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