Supreme Court vacates conviction after plea without information about conviction’s immigration consequences; justices split on appropriate standard of review
The opinion by Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar holds prejudicial error caused the defendant, who the court says had “robust ties to the United States,” to misunderstand the immigration consequences before he opted to plead guilty to a crime that required deportation instead of to a crime that the court describes as “deportation-neutral.”
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