The court properly denied defendant's motion for a mistrial and appointment of new counsel made on the ground of conflict of interest. During trial, defendant's Legal Aid Society attorney learned that a person arrested for selling marijuana in close temporal and spatial proximity to the instant heroin sale, and allegedly resembling defendant, had been represented on his arrest by the Legal Aid Society as well, and argued that the alleged conflict impeded her efforts to attribute...
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