Legal Opinion
Julio Baltazar-Alcazar Maria Guadalupe Baltazar v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 21, 2004No. 02-73363PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McKEOWN, Circuit Judge.
Julio Baltazar-Alcazar (“Mr. Baltazar”) and Maria Guadalupe, Baltazar (“Mrs. Bal-tazar”) petition for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) order denying their application for suspension of deportation. The issue before us is whether the Baltazars were denied the right to counsel when the immigration judge banned an entire law firm from representing them at their deportation hearing. We conclude that the Baltazars did not knowingly and voluntarily waive their statutory right to counsel of choice and that they were prejudiced by the denial of that right. We…
2Cases cited22 opinions
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- Gil Ilano Colmenar,petitioner v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2000
- Bridges v. WixonSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
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