Obleshchenko v. Ashcroft

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• concluding that petitioners failed to demonstrate prejudice when they argued competent counsel would have submitted corroborating evidence but then failed to file relevant corroborating documents
• concluding that because applicants had no protected liberty or property interest in the discretionary statutory relief they sought, they had no right to effective assistance of counsel
• applicant must show counsel’s performance was so inadequate it “may well have resulted in a deportation that would not otherwise have occurred,” akin to a “reasonable probability” standard
• to determine whether noncitizens demonstrated prejudice, this court asks if there is a reasonable probability that the IJ would have altered its judgment had noncitizens been represented by what they considered to be competent counsel

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).