Justice Scalia delivered the opinion of the Court. The question presented in this case is what a defendant must show in order to demonstrate a Sixth Amendment violation where the trial court fails to inquire into a potential conflict of interest about which it knew or reasonably should have known. I In 1993, a Virginia jury convicted petitioner Mickens of the premeditated m…
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