State v. Mendez

¶ 1. Ivan Mendez seeks to withdraw his guilty plea to the charge of maintaining a drug trafficking place in violation of Wis. Stat. § 961.42(1) (2011-12).1 At the time of his plea, Mendez's attorney failed to inform him that conviction of this charge would subject him to automatic deportation from the United States with no applicable exception and no possibility of discretionary waiver. See 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a) (2) (A) (i) (II) (2006); see also Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. 356, 363 (2010) (explaining that in 1996 Congress eliminated discretionary relief from deportation and that for controlled…