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Mickens Vs. Taylor

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Mar 27, 2002

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  1. United States Vs. Cronic US Supreme Court · May 14, 1984
  2. Gideon Vs. Wainwright US Supreme Court · Mar 18, 1963
  3. Cuyler Vs. Sullivan US Supreme Court · May 12, 1980
  4. Von Moltke Vs. Gillies US Supreme Court · Jan 19, 1948
  5. United States Vs. Leon US Supreme Court · Jul 05, 1984
  6. U.S. 162 (2002) October Term, 2001 Syllabus Mickens V. Taylor
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  7. that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different. Strickland v. Washington
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  8. n. 26, may also arise when the defendant's attorney actively represented conflicting interests. In Holloway v. Arkansas
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  9. codefendants over his timely objection, unless the trial court has determined that there is no conflict. In Cuyler v. Sullivan
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  10. a conflict of interest actually affected the adequacy of his representation, 446 U. S., at 348-349. Finally, in Wood v. Georgia
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  11. him of the burden of showing that a conflict of interest adversely affected his representation. Relying on Cuyler v. Sullivan
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  12. that assistance which is ineffective in preserving fairness does not meet the constitutional mandate, see Strickland v. Washington
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  13. see also Geders v. United
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  14. of the present case. To answer that question, we must examine those cases in some detail. 1 In Holloway v. Arkansas
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  15. virtually made IJUSTICE BREYER rejects Holloway v. Arkansas
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  16. U. S. 475 (1978), Cuyler v. Sullivan
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  17. U. S. 335 (1980), and Wood v. Georgia
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  18. In Cuyler v. Sullivan
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  19. triggered the trial court's duty to inquire. Id., at 346. Finally, in Wood v. Georgia
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  20. CA4 2001) (en bane), with Tr. of Oral Arg. 23-25. Some Courts of Appeals have read a footnote in Wood v. Georgia
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  21. mandated when the trial court neglects a duty to inquire into a potential conflict of interest. See, e. g., Campbell v. Rice
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  22. Ciak v. United
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  23. States, 59 F.3d 296 , 302 (CA2 1995). But see Brien v. United
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  24. elsewhere to mean what was required to be shown in Sullivan. See United States v. Cronic
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  25. e have presumed prejudice when counsel labors under an actual conflict of interest .... See Cuyler v. Sullivan
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  26. affected counsel's performance. In Holloway, 435 U. S., at 482, we described our earlier opinion in Glasser v. United
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  27. s performance was significantly affected nor in any other way renders the verdict unreliable. Cf. United States v. Cronic
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  28. as careless or as partial as those police officers who need the incentive of the exclusionary rule, see United States v. Leon
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  29. Beets v. Scott
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  30. only when (as here) there is a conflict rooted in counsel's obligations to former clients, see, e. g., Perillo v. Johnson
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  31. Freund v. Butterworth
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  32. Mannhalt v. Reed
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  33. United States v. Young
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  34. of the defendant somehow implicates counsel's personal or financial interests, including a book deal, United States v. Hearst
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  35. F.2d 1190 , 1193 (CA9 1980), a job with the prosecutor's office, Garcia v. Bunnell
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  36. n. 4 (CA9 1994), the teaching of classes to Internal Revenue Service agents, United States v. Michaud
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  37. with the prosecutor, Summerlin v. Stewart
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  38. F. 3d 926, 935-941 (CA9 2001), or fear of antagonizing the 175 trial judge, United States v. Sayan
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  39. itself is evidently inadequate to assure vindication of the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel. See Nix v. Whiteside
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  40. counsel's brief representation of the victim had no effect whatsoever on the course of petitioner's trial. See Mickens v. Greene
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  41. Court's factual findings unless we can conclude they are clearly erroneous. See Lackawanna County District Attorney v. Coss
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  42. Amendment protects the defendant against an ineffective attorney, as well as a conflicted one. See Strick land v. Washington
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  43. This protection is applicable to state, as well as federal, criminal proceedings. Gideon v. Wainwright
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  44. We have long recognized the paramount importance of the right to effective assistance of counsel. United States v. Cronic
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  45. was an absolute prerequisite to Mickens' eligibility for the death penalty.3 Of course, since that 2 Williams v. Reed
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  46. Williams v. Reed
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  47. Because a lawyer's fiduciary relationship with his deceased client survives the client's death, Swidler & Berlin v. United
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  48. the code of ethics, is a violation of the Constitution. 184 of self-representation recognized in Faretta v. California
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  49. Syllabus Mickens V. Taylor
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  50. Strickland v. Washington
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