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SCOTUS to Consider Padilla Retroactivity: Chaidez v. U.S.

April 30, 2012 (1 min read)

"The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to settle a dispute among lower courts on whether to give more immigrants the benefit of a ruling that requires their lawyers to advise them more clearly on what can happen if they plead guilty to a crime.  At issue in the new case of Chaidez v. United States (11-820) is the potential retroactivity of the Court’s 2010 ruling in Padilla v. Kentucky." - SCOTUSblog, Apr. 30, 2012.

[Click here for the briefs, etc.  Disappointing, to say the least, that the SG weighs in on the wrong side.]

Mr. Peabody and Sherman use the Wayback Machine to determine Padilla retroactivity!