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Criminal Deportation and a New U.S. Supreme Court Case

By Ron Chapman

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          The United States Supreme Court recently decided a case called Padilla v. Kentucky in which the issue was whether Mr. Padilla's lawyer provided him with ineffective assistance of counsel when he failed to tell Padilla that he might be deported from the U.S. after pleading guilty to drug-distribution charges because he was a lawful permanent resident of the United States rather than a naturalized citizen.  According to Padilla, his lawyer told him not to worry about being deported because he had been living in the U.S. for over 40 years.                     The Supreme Court agreed with Padilla that his lawyer's legal representation was constitutionally deficient and provided the following reasons for coming to that conclusion:                     1...continue to full post

Full post as published by Palm Beach Criminal Defense Blog on May 02, 2010 (boomark / email).

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