Responsibilities of defense counsel
Source:
Section 135.425 — Responsibilities of defense counsel, https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors135.html.
Notes of Decisions
This section requires criminal defense attorney prior to guilty plea to disclose consequences of guilty plea and conviction, including, in case of non-citizen client, possibility of deportation. Lyons v. Pearce, 298 Or 554, 694 P2d 969 (1985)
Where, under applicable immigration law, criminal conviction will not result in possibility of deportation, counsel is not required to advise alien client of such possibility prior to entry of guilty plea, nor to request that court make recommendation against deportation. Lyons v. Pearce, 298 Or 569, 694 P2d 978 (1985)
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