BLACKMON v. U.S.

No. 14-CF-868.

146 A.3d 1074 (2016)

James Earl BLACKMON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 29, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew B. Kaplan for appellant.

John L. Hill , Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Channing D., Phillips , United States Attorney, and Elizabeth Trosman , Sharon Donovan , Elizabeth H. Danello , and Ann K. H. Simon , Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before: Fisher and Blackburne-Rigsby, Associate Judges; and Ruiz, Senior Judge.


In this appeal, appellant James Blackmon claims that he is entitled to reversal of his convictions and a new trial because his appointed counsel had a continuing conflict of interest as a result of an error made in the course of considering the government's plea offer. We conclude that the trial court recognized the actual conflict...

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