Legal Opinion
Kovacs v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 3, 2014No. Docket 13-0209PublishedCited by 121 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The Opinion of the Court is filed by Judge JACOBS. Judge KEARSE concurs except for Part I.B.l.
DENNIS JACOBS, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner Stephen Kovacs appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Wexler, /.), denying his petition for a writ of coram nobis. Kovacs was convicted for misprision of felony, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 4, and seeks the writ on the ground that his lawyer rendered ineffective assistance by giving erroneous advice concerning the deportation consequences of pleading guilty to that offense, with the result that he is at…
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