Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 5/19/2014

Commonwealth v. DeJesus

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468 Mass. 174
9 N.E.3d 789
2014 WL 1978635
2014 Mass. LEXIS 389

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noting that in assessing plea offer, \a noncitizen defendant confronts a very different calculus than that confronting a United States citizen\
telling defendant he was \eligible for deportation\ and would \face deportation\ held to be inadequate
finding advice deficient because it did “not convey . . . that all of the conditions necessary for removal would be met by the defendant’s guilty plea, and that, under [f]ederal law, there would be virtually no avenue for discretionary relief”
special circumstances shown by defendant who moved from Dominican Republic at age eleven and all of his family reside here
defense counsel's failure to provide defendant with specific advice about certainty of deportation satisfied performance prong of ineffective assistance claim
guilty plea vacated because of ineffective assistance of counsel on another ground

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Judges: Cordy, Duffly

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