Ricardo Salazar v. State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• holding that correct advice required informing client that “the plea of guilty would result in certain deportation” and “terms ‘likelihood’ and ‘possibility’” were insufficient to convey the certainty of deportation
• Finding “special circumstances where defendant’s mother and younger siblings lived in the United States and defendant had been reared in the United States
• holding the decision to reject an offer of up to two years in state jail and up to a $10,000 fine, to face a potentially longer sentence at trial, in order to avoid deportation would have been rational given defendant’s lack of criminal history and young age
• “[T]he correct advice, which was that the plea of guilty would result in certain deportation, was not given. Both the terms ‘likelihood’ and ‘possibility’ leave open the hope that deportation might not occur. Consequently, these admonishments were inaccurate . . . .”
• noting evidence of community support for probation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).