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So I'm on my 3rd representation in a felony case, now my
current attorney tells the judge conflict?This is a case that has been going on
for over 3 years now, due to myself getting sick and being incapacitated during
the beginning from a illness. I have since recovered and court proceedings
picked up where we left off. During the time we were adjourned the lawyer I
retained, was eventually granted his withdrawal because I did not have funds. I
was then appointed a PD. That took 7 months, for numerous reasons. After 10
months he decided to quit practicing law. So, I was without an attorney again.
So, 8 months later a court appointed attorney took my case on. He has been my
attorney since March now. We had court the other day and now he states their
may be a conflict in the case? What does this mean? We just got a new date that’s
it?
Answer (Jay K. Nixon,
Criminal Defense Atty. in Kenosha & Janesville, WI)
Telling the court that there is a conflict normally means an
ethical conflict, under the WI Supreme Court's rules of professional
responsibilities. This is very different than social ethics, since attorneys
must raise it any time that there is a competing interest to which they are also
obligated to attend to; for example, finding out that he represents a
codefendant, which is always a conflict, since the DA might offer any defendant
a better deal to testify against other codefendants. Clients who have
threatened an attorney or threatened to file an ethics complaint against him
are probably the second most common type of “conflict” withdrawal, but the list
of things is almost endless. For the protection of the client, lawyers are not
obligated to state specific reasons, since they might incriminate the client. Talk
to the public defender's office about a replacement ASAP.
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