Shermaine Johnson v. Henry Ponton

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Miller is not retroactively applicable to cases on collateral review
• describing Padilla as holding that “counsel is ineffective where she fails to ‘inform her client whether his plea carries a risk of deportation’ ”
• “We therefore hold that the Supreme Court has not held the Miller rule retroactively applicable, and that the Court’s holdings do not dictate retroactivity because the rule is neither substantive nor a watershed rule of criminal procedure.”

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