Legal Opinion
United States v. Jonathan Leal-Del Carmen
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 14, 2012No. 11-50094PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KOZINSKI, Chief Judge:
May the government deport an illegal alien who can provide exculpatory evidence for a criminal defendant before counsel for that defendant has even been appointed? We believe the answer is self-evident, as the government recognized in an earlier case where it moved to vacate a conviction after it deported witnesses whose testimony would have exculpated defendant. See United States v. Ramirez-Lopez, 315 F.3d 1143 (9th Cir.2003), withdrawn by United States v. Ramirez-Lopez, 327 F.3d 829 (9th Cir.2003); Joint Motion to Remand Case to the District Court for the…
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