Court Opinion

ID: 9851051
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 05:06:37.349173+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:20:47.860461
License: Public Domain

PARKS, Judge,
specially concurring:
I write separately only to address appellant’s proposition regarding a conflict of interest. The majority determines that appellant failed to show any prejudice which resulted from the conflict of interest. While I agree with this determination, I am compelled to point out that defense counsel had an obligation “to avoid conflicting representations and to advise the court promptly when a conflict of interest arises during the course of trial.” Cuyler v. Sullivan, 446 U.S. 335, 346, 100 S.Ct. 1708, 1717, 64 L.Ed.2d 333 (1980). If defense counsel had given notice to the court of the possible conflict, this problem could have been avoided.