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AUSTIN v. STATE

No. 155, September Term, 1989.

327 Md. 375 (1992)

609 A.2d 728

LEROY AUSTIN v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

July 27, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victoria S. Keating, Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, both on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

Richard B. Rosenblatt, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., both on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW, JJ., and MARVIN H. SMITH, Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals (retired), Specially Assigned.

ELDRIDGE, Judge.

We granted a petition for a writ of certiorari in this criminal case to review the petitioner's contention that his trial counsel labored under an actual conflict of interest which requires a reversal of the convictions. The asserted conflict of interest arose when law partners continued to represent codefendants in a criminal trial after one of the codefendants elected to testify against the other.

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The pertinent facts are as...

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