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Padilla v. Kentucky, No. 08-651 (U.S. Supreme Court) (559 U.S. 356; 130 S.Ct. 1473) (March 31, 2010) (Justice Stevens)

Loaded on April 5, 2010 published in Punch and Jurists April 05, 2010
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Deportation/Removal.

Here in a significant expansion of the Sixth Amendment, the Supreme Court held that attorneys have a constitutional obligation to advise clients of the collateral immigration consequences of a guilty plea, such as deportation, in a criminal case.

This game-changing ruling may be the Supreme Court’s sleeper decision of the ...

 

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