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Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Dec. 30, 1999

Immigrant Sues Attorneys To Stop Deportation

An assistant public defender failed to inform her client of the consequences of pleading no contest to armed robbery, including the fact that the plea bargain she reached subjected him to deportation proceedings, according to a legal malpractice lawsuit.

        
By Denise Levin
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        An assistant public defender failed to inform her client of the consequences of pleading no contest to armed robbery, including the fact that the plea bargain she reached subjected him to deportation proceedings, according t...

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