Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Mercado
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 6, 2016No. SJC 11964PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCordy, J.
In Commonwealth v. Sylvain, 466 Mass. 422, 423-424 (2013), S.C., 473 Mass. 832 (2016), we affirmed our decision in Commonwealth v. Clarke, 460 Mass. 30 (2011), that, under Massachusetts law, defense counsel’s duty to provide noncitizen defendants with accurate advice regarding the deportation consequences of pleading guilty (or being convicted at trial), as articulated by the United States Supreme Court in Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. 356, 360 (2010), was to be applied retroactively on collateral review. See Clarke, supra at 31. We set the date of retroactivity at April 1, 1997, the…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Hill v. LockhartSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Padilla v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 2010
- Immigration & Naturalization Service v. St. CyrSupreme Court of the United States · 2001
- Chaidez v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2013
- Commonwealth v. ClarkeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2011
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Commonwealth v. SylvesterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2016
- Commonwealth v. DiasMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2019
- Commonwealth v. MercadoMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2017
- Commonwealth v. PerezMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2017
- Commonwealth v. PortilloMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2018
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