023332P.pdf   07/30/2004  Charles I. Covey  v.  USA
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  02-3332
   Western District of Missouri   
   Prisoner case - habeas. In case involving a claim that lawyer's advice 
   concerning an illegal money laundering transaction created a conflict of 
   interest and prevented him from asserting an advice-of-counsel defense at 
   trial, Covey failed to show that the alleged conflict of interest adversely 
   affected the lawyer's performance at trial, as all of the evidence in the 
   case showed that defendant knew he was making an illegal loan and 
   reliance on counsel's advice in making the transaction would not have 
   been objectively reasonable; consequently, counsel's alleged conflict of 
   interest could not have affected his decision as to whether to present the 
   defense and could not serve as the basis for an ineffective assistance of 
   counsel claim. 
   [PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Bright and Hansen, Circuit Judges]