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LITTLEJOHN v. STATE

No. 90-KA-0584.

593 So.2d 20 (1992)

Deborah LITTLEJOHN v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

January 15, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard B. Lewis, Chapman Lewis & Swan, Clarksdale, for appellant.

Mike C. Moore, Atty. Gen., Jackson, Ellen Y. Dale, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before HAWKINS, P.J., and BANKS and McRAE, JJ.

HAWKINS, Presiding Justice, for the COURT:

Deborah Littlejohn has appealed her conviction of conspiracy to distribute cocaine in the circuit court of the Second Judicial District of Bolivar County. Because the attorney who represented her was also counsel for the State's main witness in the trial against her for the same offense, we find an irreparable conflict of interest and consequent violation of Littlejohn's Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of...

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