11 Md. App. 293 - Kent v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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9 state decisions

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The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In order to support a finding that a criminal defendant has been denied effective assistance of counsel because of a conflict of interest, the record must disclose that either an actual conflict of interest existed or that a conflict of interest was ‘imminently potential.’ Pressley v. State, 220 Md. 558 [ 155 A.2d 494 ]. Given such a situation where an actual or imminent conflict of interest is shown to exist, there must be a further showing that some prejudice to the accused resulted, although such prejudice need only be slight and the requirement is satisfied if it is demonstrated ‘that counsel was not as effective as he might have been had the conflict not existed.’ Brown v. State, 10 Md.App. 215, 227 [ 269 A.2d 96 ].””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 93 Md. App. 240 - Gee v. State

2. “Counsel was in an obvious conflict of interest situation. Since waiver will not be presumed from a silent record, the trial judge should have ascertained for the record whether appellant, knowingly and willingly, was consenting to the dual representation at a time when he would have been entitled to separate counsel.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Pugh v. State