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Cert Grant: Whether Lawyer's Nonadvice or Misadvice About Immigration Consequences of Guilty Plea Constitutes Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

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As a commenter to an earlier post points out, the Supreme Court granted cert last week in Padilla v. Kentucky, No. 08-651, a case concerning a defense lawyer's obligation to advise an alien client about the immigration consequences of pleading guilty to a criminal offense. The formal questions presented are available here, but an amicus brief in support of the petition frames the questions in a

Full post as published by Fifth Circuit Blog on March 02, 2009 (boomark / email).

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