Amatrudi v. Gershen

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plea counsel’s advice that defendant’s guilty plea would render him “deportable” was not ineffective
• holding that Padilla requires counsel to inform a non-citizen defendant of the risk of deportation, not that deportation is a certainty
• holding that Padilla requires counsel to inform a non- citizen defendant of the risk of deportation, not that deportation is a certainty
• holding that plea counsel’s advice that defendant’s guilty plea would render him “deportable” was not ineffective
• holding plea counsel effective when he advised his client that plea may make him deportable
• finding that counsel had no duty to consult where appellant pleaded no contest and received lenient sentence of probation; rational defendant would not desire an appeal from a generous sentence

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