Lawyers Must Advise Clients on Deportation, Supreme Court Rules
March 31st, 2010
In a decision one justice called “a major upheaval in Sixth Amendment law,” the Supreme Court ruled today that lawyers have a constitutional obligation to advise clients of the collateral immigration consequences of a guilty plea in a criminal case. The ruling came in Padilla v
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Lawyers Must Advise Clients on Deportation, Supreme Court Rules