Legal Opinion
United States v. Cerna
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 27, 2010No. Docket 09-1170-crPublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KATZMANN, Circuit Judge:
This case gives us occasion once again to take note of the exceptionally poor quality of representation often provided by attorneys retained by aliens as they attempt to negotiate the complexities of our immigration law. See Aris v. Mukasey, 517 F.3d 595, 596 (2d Cir.2008). Here, despite the fact that the immigration judge (“IJ”) specifically found that the defendant was eligible for relief from deportation in the form of a waiver of inadmissibility under former § 212(c) of the Immigration and Naturalization Act (“INA”), 8 U.S.C. § 1182(c) (repealed 1996), and despite…
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