| US Says
Soundview Defendants With Same Lawyer Face
Conflict But Wedge Alleged
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
August 30 – Two defendants
from Soundview in the Bronx
have the same lawyer; a
hearing on the possible
conflicts of interest was held
on August 30.
U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New
York Judge John P.
Cronan held an in-person
Curcio hearing. Inner City
Press went and covered
it.
The US Attorney's
Office had requested the
hearing, soon after it learned
that CJA Panel attorney Lauren
Di Chiara, who was already
representing Brandon Robinson
before Judge Cronan, was also
appointed to represent Kai
Johnson, also of Soundview,
before SDNY Judge Lewis J.
Liman.
Judge Cronan's
Curcio hearing was proceeding
according to script when
Robinson's lead counsel,
Harvey Fishbein, spoke up to
explain why he had deemed the
Curcio hearing unnecessary at
this point.
He said, as
Robinson had, that his client
had no intention of
cooperating, and that Johnson
had said the same.
Fishbein
said that if either change,
Ms. Di Chiara as a CJA Panel
member would immediately
withdraw from one or the other
of the representations.
The government's
inquiring into the
hypothetical of cooperation
served, he said, to drive a
wedge between lawyer and
client.
Judge
Cronan reformulated his waiver
of appeal question, and
accepted the waiver of
(potential) conflict of
interest.
The case is US v.
Robinson, 21-cr-762
(Cronan)
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