Commonwealth v. Araujo

Lowy, David A., J.

On October 16, 1992, defendant Domingo Araujo (“Araujo”) pled guiliy to conspiracy to traffick in cocaine. He received a suspended ten-year “Concord” term, and five years’ probation (Roseman, J.). Probation terminated on March 4, 1998, relatively on schedule. Araujo now moves for a new trial on the grounds that he does not recall the immigration warnings under G.L.c. 278, §27D, being read to him and the docket does not reflect that they were, and that his counsel in 1992 was ineffective for not adequately researching the immigration consequences that might now be possible.…