U.S. Supreme Court
Mar. 18, 2009
Justices Give Deportees Fewer Options
Immigrants facing deportation because of crimes they committed long ago cannot rely on two common post-conviction challenge procedures to save them, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday in two separate cases.
Daily Journal Staff Writer Immigrants facing deportation because of crimes they committed long ago cannot rely on two common post-conviction challenge procedures to save them, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday in two separate cases. The unanimous rulings mean that thousands of immigrants in California whose criminal convictions have come back to haunt them decades later have no recourse in state court, immigration lawyers sa...
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