{"id":854,"date":"2010-04-05T08:35:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T14:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/?p=854"},"modified":"2010-04-05T08:41:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T14:41:27","slug":"im-not-an-immigration-lawyer-will-no-longer-cut-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/04\/05\/im-not-an-immigration-lawyer-will-no-longer-cut-it\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;M NOT AN IMMIGRATION LAWYER&#8221; WILL NO LONGER CUT IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Juan Padilla, a native of Honduras and a lawful permanent resident of the U.S. for more than 40 years and Vietnam U.S. army veteran, was charged with transporting a large amount of bud in his rig in Kentucky.\u00a0 His attorney told him not\u00a0to worry about the immigration consequences of his plea because &#8220;he had been in the country so long.&#8221; But alas, the plea subjected Juan to automatic deportation. In this important case our own JUSTICE STEVENS wrote for five members of the court that &#8221; we now hold that counsel must [correctly]\u00a0inform her client whether his plea carries a risk of deportation. Our longstanding Sixth Amendment precedents, the seriousness of deportation as a consequence of a criminal plea, and the concomitant impact of deportation on families living lawfully in this country demand no less.&#8221;\u00a0 You can read the opinion and the interesting concurrence and dissent at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/09pdf\/08-651.pdf\">Jose Padilla, Petitioner v Kentucky<\/a>, No. 08-651 559 U.S. ____(2010).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Juan Padilla, a native of Honduras and a lawful permanent resident of the U.S. for more than 40 years and Vietnam U.S. army veteran, was charged with transporting a large amount of bud in his rig in Kentucky.\u00a0 His attorney told him not\u00a0to worry about the immigration consequences of his plea because &#8220;he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}