Helfant v. Sobkowski

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that “the imposition of periods of community supervision and community service, the community supervision and pretrial intervention program fees, the order of restitution, and the no-contact order” “individually and cumulatively constitute a “form of punishment”
• “[W]hether or not a conviction exists for immigration purposes is a question of federal law and is not dependent on the vagaries of state law.” (citation omitted)
• “[T]he question is not whether the State . . . regards [the offense] as a conviction, but rather whether the [offense] meets the Federal definition of a ‘conviction’ in section [1101](a)(48)(A).” (quoting Matter of Roldan, 22 I. & N. Dec. 512, 516 (BIA 1999)
• addressing Texas pretrial intervention agreements

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).