United States v. Marino Amador-Leal

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• holding that immigration consequences, although important to alien defendants, are collateral
• “The distinction between a direct and collateral consequence of a plea turns on whether the result represents a definite, immediate and largely automatic effect on the range of the defendant’s punishment.” (quotations omitted)
• abrogation recognized by U.S. v. Bonilla, 637 F.3d 980 (9th Cir. 2011)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).