trust in the representatives who are required to decide public issues coming before them.” Barrett, supra, 230 N.J.Super. at 200, 553 A.2d 62. The question is whether there is a potential for conflict, not whether the conflicting interest actually influenced the action. Wyzykowski, supra, 132 N.J. at 523, 626 A.2d 406; Griggs v. Borough of Princeton, 33 N.J. 207, 219,162 A.2d 862 (1960); Care of Tenafly, Inc. v. Tenafly Zoning Bd. of Adj., 307 N.J.Super. 362, 370, 704 A.2d 1032 (App.Div.), certif. denied, 154 N.J. 609, 713 A.2d 500 (1998). Thus, “[a] conflict of interest arises when the public official has an interest not shared in common with the other members of the public.” Wyzykowski, supra, 132 N.J. at 524, 626 A.2d 406; see also Barrett, supra, 230 N.J.Super. at 204, 553 A.2d 62 (<HOLDING>). All interests, however, do not possess the
holding that the defendants mother validly consented to a search of a motor home parked in the driveway of her house when the motor home was connected by an electrical cord to her house the mother was observed entering the motor home repeatedly and the mother apparently had supervisory authority over two teenage girls who were inside the motor home because it was reasonable to conclude that the mother had common authority over the motor home sufficient to give valid consent recognizing conflict holding that right to appeal claim of inef fective assistance of counsel alleging that counsel had disqualifying conflict of interest waived because record did not show that jordan would have pleaded not guilty but for alleged conflict of interest holding councilman had disqualifying conflict  not held by members of the public  where his mother resided in nursing home favored by zoning amendment recognizing the conflict