CRIMINAL LAW: Retroactivity of Supreme Court Decision in Padilla v. Kentucky and Possible Application for Health Professionals
The Health Law Firm
JANUARY 17, 2014
Our guest author of this is article is Mark Rieber, a legal research attorney with National Legal Research Group in Charlottesville, Virginia. In Padilla v. Kentucky , 559 US 356 (2010), the Supreme Court held that the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel requires an attorney for a criminal defendant to provide advice about the risk of deportation arising from a guilty plea.
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