So, conflict of interests occurs at the outset of criminal law. They can also develop during the course of the trial, so that becomes a messy situation too. Two people paid a lawyer all this money, and a conflict occurs in the middle of the trial. A trial gets mis-tried and put over and where do you go from there. So you have to be very careful as a criminal lawyer, and you have to understand the law of conflicts very carefully. So that’s the short answer of when not you can develop a , you know, a conflict and whether a lawyer should actually consider taking two co-accused on. The bottom line the lawyer has to be very careful, and do the right thing. It sometimes doesn’t pay to take two co-accused on even though there’s no conflict.
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