172428P.pdf   01/31/2019  Patrick Joseph Kiley  v.  United States
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  17-2428
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Colloton and Benton, Circuit Judges] 
   Prisoner case - Habeas. For Kiley's direct appeal, see U.S. v. Beckman, 
   787 F.3d 466 (8th Cir. 2015). Kiley failed to show any adverse effect from 
   his trial attorney's conflict of interest; the trial strategy counsel 
   adopted was one a reasonable attorney would have adopted absent a 
   conflict; the evidence against Kiley was overwhelming and the alternative 
   defense strategies he proposed were not objectively reasonable; nor has 
   Kiley shown that the conflict diminished counsel's credibility in the 
   jury's eyes; there was no evidence that the counsel knew the funds Kiley 
   sent him as a retainer were stolen; the evidence was also insufficient to 
   support a reasonable inference that counsel knew, or should have known, 
   that the funds were illegitimate; the district court did not clearly err 
   in finding certain emails were insufficient to raise an inference that 
   counsel was entangled in Kiley's conspiracy.