Category: Crim Imm – Crimigration

In Johnson v. United States, the Supreme Court held that in order to constitute a “violent felony” under the relevant provisions of the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”), the level of “physical force” required for a conviction must be “violent force-that is, force capable of causing physical pain or injury to another person.” See 18 U.S.C. §§ 924(e)(1), (2)(B)(i) (2006). Simple battery under Florida […]

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 […]