July 15, 2010
U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Padilla v. Kentucky: Immigration Consequences of Criminal Plea Bargains are not merely collateral
On March 31, 2010, after decades of hundreds of thousands of immigrants being deported because of ineffective criminal lawyers, the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision to put criminal defense attorneys on notice: No longer can they blindly and ineffectively compel clients to accept any deal offered by the prosecutor. In Padilla v. Kentucky, the Supreme Court held that the Sixth […]
