Commonwealth v. Lavrinenko

How courts have described this case

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• discussing \reasonable probability\ standard and citing Scott, 467 Mass. at 361, and Ferrara, 456 F.3d at 294
• defendant's refugee status entitled to \particularly substantial weight\ because of \risk of persecution\ in country of origin
• plea judge who held evidentiary hearing on motion for new trial was \final arbiter\ on witnesses' credibility
• competent counsel should advise defendant of clear immigration consequence of losing viable opportunity for discretionary relief
• \the clear immigration consequence of the defendant's plea . . . was the substantial risk that he would lose a viable opportunity for discretionary relief\
• failure of a defense attorney to ask their client about citizenship and immigration status can “satisfy the deficient performance prong of the ineffective assistance analysis.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).