United States v. Elizabeth Rodriguez-Vega

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, where deportation is virtually certain as a consequence of the guilty plea, advising the defendant of the mere potential for deportation is deficient performance
• holding that where the deportation consequence of a guilty plea is virtually certain, advice to the defendant that her guilty plea potentially subjects her to deportation constitutes ineffective assistance
• finding deficient performance when trial counsel advised that deportation was merely possible when it was “virtually certain” that it would occur
• granting § 2255 motion and 14 vacating conviction where petitioner alleged ineffective assistance of counsel premised on 15 failure to advise petitioner of immigration consequences of guilty plea
• defendant facing total prison term of 10-16 months could have rationally chosen trial for chance of avoiding deportation
• where the immigration statute or case law expressly identifies the offense as a 26 ground for removal, \the deportation consequence is truly clear\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).