A defendant received ineffective assistance of counsel when his lawyer told him that he “could be” deported—not that he definitely would be deported—as a result of his guilty plea for attempted robbery, a divided state appeals court has ruled.
Moussa Doumbia, a “noncitizen” defendant and Ivory Coast native, will have the opportunity to vacate his plea upon showing that there’s a “reasonable probability” he would not have pleaded guilty had he known of the deportation consequences, the Appellate Division, First Department, ruled in a 3-1 decision.
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