Immigration Impact Unit
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The CPCS Immigration Impact Unit is located in the Somerville Superior Court office of CPCS. We are available to all CPCS staff attorneys and bar advocates for assistance on matters affecting noncitizen clients. We provide trainings throughout Massachusetts on the immigration consequences of criminal conduct, distribute written training materials and updates on significant legal issues, and provide post-conviction litigation support. We also advise attorneys on minimizing adverse immigration consequences in individual cases. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that criminal defense attorneys have a Sixth Amendment duty to advise their clients about immigration consequences of their criminal cases, and that failure to do so is ineffective assistance of counsel. Padilla v. Kentucky, 130 S.Ct. 1473 (2010). We are available to help defense counsel learn the basics of this area of law and to provide assistance in determining the specific consequences to individual clients. Please review our advisory on the Padilla case for more information. CPCS Immigration Impact Unit
Wendy S. Wayne Jeannie Kain Jennifer Klein
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