Criminal Court Judge Louis Nock said Julio Morales had shown a basis for his ineffective assistance claim because had Morales "known the true, adverse immigration consequences" of taking his lawyer's advice to plead guilty to a misdemeanor drug charge, he would not have done so.
September 08, 2015 at 09:00 AM
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A man fighting a deportation order triggered by a 15-year-old misdemeanor drug conviction has been granted an evidentiary hearing by a Manhattan judge.
Julio Morales brought a CPL §440 motion to vacate his conviction, claiming his attorney at the time erroneously told him his guilty plea could not be used as a basis for deportation.
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