What is the test for establishing that there is an actual conflict in representation?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Iorizzo, 786 F.2d 52 (2nd Cir. 1986):
Thus, once the defendant establishes that there was an actual conflict, he need not prove prejudice, but simply that a "lapse in representation," Cuyler v. Sullivan, 446 U.S. 335, 349, 100 S.Ct. 1708, 1718-19, 64 L.Ed.2d 333 (1980), resulted from the conflict.
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