United States v. Deft. 1

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ___________________________________ ) UNITED STATES ) ) ) v. ) Criminal No. 01-0361 (PLF) ) Civil Action No. 11-2077 (PLF) KERRY NEWMAN, ) ) Defendant/Petitioner. ) ___________________________________ ) MEMORANDUM OPINION Petitioner Kerry Newman asks the Court to vacate his 2001 guilty plea to a criminal information charging him with one count of wire fraud. Newman alleges that his attorney provided ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to inform him that his plea, to a near certainty, would cause him to be deported, in…