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PEOPLE v. HARRIS

99 N.Y.2d 202 (2002)

783 N.E.2d 502

753 N.Y.S.2d 437

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. LAWRENCE D. HARRIS, Also Known as DAHU, Also Known as D., Appellant. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. ANTHONY J. WRIGHT, Also Known as ANDREW D. SMITH, Also Known as C., Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided November 21, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Boyle, New York City, for Lawrence Harris, appellant.

Daniel R. Williams, New York City, for Anthony J. Wright, appellant.

Louise K. Sira, District Attorney, Johnstown, for respondent.

Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, New York City (Laurie M. Israel, Caitlin J. Halligan, Daniel Smirlock and Robin A. Forshaw of counsel), for Attorney General of the State of New York, amicus curiae.

Chief Judge KAYE and Judges SMITH, LEVINE, WESLEY, ROSENBLATT and GRAFFEO concur.

OPINION OF THE COURT

CIPARICK, J.

This joint appeal presents us with two distinct attorney conflict situations and defendants' claims that such conflicts deprived them of their constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel. Defendant Lawrence Harris maintains that his attorney's pretrial concurrent representation of a confidential informant, a key prosecution witness, was a conflict of interest that deprived...

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