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THE RECORD WAS NOT SUFFICIENT FOR CONSIDERATION OF THE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE ARGUMENT RE WHETHER DEFENDANT WAS ADEQUATELY INFORMED OF THE DEPORTATION CONSEQUENCES OF HIS GUILTY PLEA; THE PRECISE NATURE OF COUNSEL’S ADVICE WAS NOT IN THE RECORD; TWO-JUSTICE DISSENT (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department, over a two-justice dissent, determined the record was insufficient to preserve the ineffective assistance of counsel argument. The defendant argued that he was insufficiently informed about the deportation-risk associated with his guilty plea. The majority held that the record did not reflect the precise advice given by counsel and therefore the appropriate mechanism for review is a CPL 440.10 motion. The dissenters argued the record was sufficient to send the matter back for a motion to vacate the plea:

We do not agree with defendant’s attempt to exempt himself from the necessity of making a CPL 440.10 motion based on his counsel’s statements at the plea hearing concerning the off-the-record advice concerning immigration that had been rendered. To reiterate, counsel’s statements to the court, on their face, are general in nature and do not purport to describe the contents of the immigration advice that defendant actually received. The statement that defendant had been advised of “all possible consequences” was consistent both with accurate advice that the plea would subject him to mandatory deportation and with inaccurate advice that failed to warn him of that consequence. We cannot, on this record, tell whether the advice actually given was accurate or inaccurate. Certainly, it cannot be said that counsel’s statement establishes “irrefutably” … that the advice given was inaccurate, as is required to render a CPL 440.10 motion unnecessary. People v Gomez, 2020 NY Slip Op 04518, First Dept 8-13-20

 

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