A case at the state Supreme Court tests whether an attorney's failure to tell his client that pleading guilty to a charge of criminal restraint could lead to indefinite civil commitment under the Sexually Violent Predator Act amounted to ineffective assistance of counsel.
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Sexual Assault Pleader Claims He Was Not Told of Civil Commitment
New Jersey Law Journal
January 31, 2013
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