BACKGROUND
SACK, Circuit Judge:
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Sterling Johnson, Jr., Judge) denied petitioner's habeas corpus petition without holding an evidentiary hearing. The petition had been brought pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 on the grounds that petitioner's trial counsel represented petitioner while laboring under a conflict of interest. We hold that an evidentiary hearing was required.
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