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Effective early commentary on SCOTUS ruling in Padilla

By Douglas A. Berman

This weekend's must-read comes via this link at SSRN to a new piece by Margaret Colgate Love and Gabriel Chin concerning the Supreme Court's important decision late last month in Padilla v. Kentucky. The piece is forthcoming in the May 2010 issue of The Champion, and it is titled simply "Padilla v. Kentucky: The Right to Counsel and the Collateral Consequences of Conviction."  Here is the abstract: In Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. (March 31, 2010), the Supreme Court broke new ground in holding in a 7-2 decision that a criminal defense lawyer had failed to provide his noncitizen client effective assistance of counsel when he did not tell him that he was almost certain to be deported if he plead guilty.  It is the first time that the Court has applied the 1984 Strickland v...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 17, 2010 (boomark / email).