Posts Tagged ‘ineffective assistance of counsel’

Criminal Defendants Must Be Advised of Immigration Consequences of Plea Bargain.

Padilla v. Kentucky (U.S. Sup. Ct. 2010)  The U.S. Supreme Court took on the question as to whether a non-citizen defendant in a criminal case must be be advised by his lawyer beforehand that pleading guilty to certain criminal offenses would result in his being removed from the United States.  The case arose because Jose […]

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