RUIZ, Associate J.
The key issue in this appeal is whether, as a result of a discussion between defense counsel and a crucial prosecution witness over a tentative attorney-client relationship, appellant's appointed counsel operated under an "actual conflict" in violation of the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel as established in Cuyler v. Sullivan,
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