Criminal
Mar. 15, 2011
Court: Deportation-Risk Warnings a Must
Criminal defense lawyers must tell noncitizen clients about the deportation risk of a guilty plea, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel stressed Friday.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Criminal defense lawyers must tell noncitizen clients about the deportation risk of a guilty plea, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel stressed Friday.
It was the circuit's first application of a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision that expanded the Sixth Amendment's right-to-counsel guarantee to include accurate advice on immigration status.
The panel granted relief to a man who w...
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