SYKES, Circuit Judge.
The district court disqualified Roosevelt Turner's retained counsel from representing him in this cocaine-conspiracy case because the attorney was also representing an alleged coconspirator in sentencing proceedings. The question for us is whether this violated Turner's Sixth Amendment right to counsel of his choice.
In February 2005 the government indicted Turner and eight others for conspiring to distribute cocaine in Alton, Illinois...
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