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State v. Garcia

Citations

  • 727 A.2d 97
  • 320 N.J. Super. 332

How courts have described this case

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  • holding PCR court should have held an evidentiary hearing as to whether client was affirmatively misinformed about deportation consequences when he entered his guilty plea
  • holding the PCR court should not have decided contested issue of material fact on conflicting affidavits without considering testimony of witnesses in open court
  • attorney who failed to inform his alien client that guilty plea would subject him to incarceration for an indefinite period because Cuba would not accept return of deported nationals rendered ineffective assistance
  • noting same principle in dictum

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Judges Conley and Lefelt

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