Crimes of Moral Turpitude

(J)

Inability of defense counsel to render effective assistance because of a conflict of interest.[133]  Where the trial court knew, or reasonably should have known, of a conflict of interest, it was required to inquire as to the conflict, but the defendant must show adverse performance of his attorney to win reversal of conviction on this ground.[134]

[133] Holloway v. Arkansas, 435 U.S. 475, 482 (1978).

[134] Mickens v. Taylor, 122 S.Ct. 1237 (2002) (relief denied for lack of showing of adverse performance where capital murder defendant was given an attorney who had previously represented the victim of the murder, in another criminal matter, which the trial judge had previously dismissed before he appointed him to represent the defendant in this murder).