The United States Supreme Court recently decided the case of Padilla v. Kentucky, holding that attorneys must advise illegal immigrants of the possibility of deportation as a consequence of any guilty plea to a criminal charge. While I strongly agree that competent criminal defense counsel should always advise ALL possible consequences of a guilty plea, […]
Steven F. Fairlie is a Philadelphia Magazine SuperLawyer, Chair of the Montgomery County
Criminal Defense Committee, and AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
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