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Know those immigration consequences, people!

By ambimb

This news is already everywhere, but in case you haven’t heard, the SCOTUS held yesterday in Padilla v. Kentucky that criminal defense attorneys must give correct advice to clients about the immigration consequences of pleading guilty. Failure to do so will be ineffective assistance of counsel. See NACDL’s press release for more. Obviously, this is something we should all have been doing already, but as Mark Bennet points out, some people don’t because they either don’t know the immigration consequences of a plea, or because “it?s much easier to get the Padillas of the world to plead guilty if you gloss over those nasty consequences.” Don’t be that PD who gives us all a bad name! If you’re not already, get familiar with the immigration consequences of criminal convictions (also here and many other places)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Public Defender Stuff on April 01, 2010 (boomark / email).