The Supreme Court has ruled that attorneys must give immigrant clients correct advice regarding their status and how they plead in a case. - - Donna Poisl
By Robert Barnes, Washington Post Staff Writer
Lawyers must advise their immigrant clients facing criminal charges that pleading guilty could lead to deportation, the Supreme Court decided Tuesday.
The court ruled 7 to 2 that the Sixth Amendment guarantee of an effective counsel extends to advice about the risk of having to leave the country.
"It is our responsibility under the Constitution to ensure that no criminal defendant -- whether a citizen or not -- is left to the mercies of incompetent counsel," Justice John Paul Stevens wrote.
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