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Lawyers await Padilla retroactivity ruling (access required)

POSTED: Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012 at 1:22 pm

BY: KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires

Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that the Sixth Amendment requires criminal defense attorneys to warn noncitizen clients if a guilty plea carries a risk of deportation, the justices are poised to decide just how far back that constitutional protection extends.

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