United States v. Andres R. Romero-Vilca

How courts have described this case

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• holding that prisoner’s motion to vacate his conviction was not mooted when he was released from custody, where he faced potential deportation as a collateral consequence of conviction
• holding that prisoner’s motion to 8 vacate his conviction was not mooted when he was released from custody, where he faced potential deportation as a collateral consequence of conviction
• holding that a habeas petitioner’s petition “is not moot in light of the potential for deportation that flows from his conviction,” which is a “burdensome collateral consequence” that “survive the satisfaction of the sentence”
• noting that, where appellant challenged certain instances of his attorney’s conduct in the trial court but raised additional grounds on appeal, the appellate court could not address the merits of the ineffective assistance claim raised for the first time on appeal
• finding the possibility of deportation to be a serious collateral consequence of a conviction
• “A collateral consequence is one that is not related to the length or nature of the sentence imposed on the basis of the plea.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).