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CA6 on Padilla, Prejudice...And The National Interest: Lee v. USA

June 08, 2016 (1 min read)

Lee v. USA, June 8, 2016 - "In Pilla we held that no rational defendant charged with a deportable offense and facing “overwhelming evidence” of guilt would proceed to trial rather than take a plea deal with a shorter prison sentence.  668 F.3d at 373.  Lee finds himself in precisely this position, and he must therefore lose. ... In reaching this conclusion, we should not be read as endorsing Lee’s impending deportation.  It is unclear to us why it is in our national interests — much less the interests of justice — to exile a productive member of our society to a country he hasn’t lived in since childhood for committing a relatively small-time drug offense."

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