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FAILURE TO CLEARLY INFORM DEFENDANT THAT PLEADING GUILTY TO AN AGGRAVATED FELONY TRIGGERS DEPORTATION CONSTITUTED INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, MERELY TELLING DEFENDANT THERE WAS A RISK OF DEPORTATION WAS NOT ENOUGH (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department, over a dissent, determined defendant should be given the opportunity to move to vacate his guilty plea because defense counsel did not make it clear that pleading guilty to an aggravated felony triggered deportation. Informing defendant of a risk of deportation was not sufficient and constituted ineffective assistance of counsel:

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Since an aggravated felony results in mandatory deportation … , counsel is under a duty to provide clear advice as to that consequence. It is thus ineffective assistance to advise a noncitizen of a mere risk or possibility that he “could be deported” … . People v Doumbia, 2017 NY Slip Op 06402, First Dept 9-5-17

CRIMINAL LAW (ATTORNEYS, FAILURE TO CLEARLY INFORM DEFENDANT THAT PLEADING GUILTY TO AN AGGRAVATED FELONY TRIGGERS DEPORTATION CONSTITUTED INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, MERELY TELLING DEFENDANT THERE WAS A RISK OF DEPORTATION WAS NOT ENOUGH (FIRST DEPT))/ATTORNEYS (CRIMINAL LAW,  FAILURE TO CLEARLY INFORM DEFENDANT THAT PLEADING GUILTY TO AN AGGRAVATED FELONY TRIGGERS DEPORTATION CONSTITUTED INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, MERELY TELLING DEFENDANT THERE WAS A RISK OF DEPORTATION WAS NOT ENOUGH (FIRST DEPT))/INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE (CRIMINAL LAW, FAILURE TO CLEARLY INFORM DEFENDANT THAT PLEADING GUILTY TO AN AGGRAVATED FELONY TRIGGERS DEPORTATION CONSTITUTED INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, MERELY TELLING DEFENDANT THERE WAS A RISK OF DEPORTATION WAS NOT ENOUGH (FIRST DEPT))

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