State v. Sandoval’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1227 (§ 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Hill v. Lockhart · McMann v. Richardson · Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Enrico St Cyr · Padilla v. Kentucky
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The guilty plea statement warnings ... cannot save the advice that counsel gave.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“that Mr. Sandoval would proceed to trial instead of accepting a plea deal given the disparity in punishment (if Mr. Sandoval were convicted of second degree rape he faced a standard sentencing range of 78-102 months' imprisonment versus his plea to third degree rape which subjected him to just 6-12 months). Id. ¶ 13 Here, like in Sandoval, it may not seem rational that Mr. Martinez would refuse a very favorable plea offer, but he claims in his brief he would not have pleaded guilty if he knew deportation would be a consequence ( see Appellant's Br. at 44) and deportation was a”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Martinez“If the applicable immigration law `is truly clear' that an offense is deportable, the defense attorney must correctly advise the defendant that pleading guilty to a particular charge would lead to deportation. If `the law is not succinct and straightforward,' counsel must provide only a general warning that `pending criminal charges may carry a risk of adverse immigration consequences.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Martinez
How this case has been treated — in progress
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