State of Arizona v. Nunez-Diaz
Arizona Supreme Court
CHIEF JUSTICE BALES authored the opinion of the Court, in which JUSTICES TIMMER, BOLICK and PELANDER (Retired) joined. JUSTICE BOLICK, joined by JUSTICE PELANDER, filed a concurring opinion. JUSTICE LOPEZ, joined by VICE CHIEF BRUTINEL and JUSTICE GOULD, filed an opinion concurring in the result.
1Opinion of the Court
CHIEF JUSTICE BALES, opinion of the Court:
¶1 In this case involving post-conviction relief, the State argues that the lower courts erred in concluding that Hector Sebastion Nunez-Diaz, an undocumented immigrant, received ineffective assistance of counsel when he entered a guilty plea resulting in his mandatory deportation. The State contends that because Nunez-Diaz was deportable without regard to his plea, he cannot establish a claim of ineffective assistance or, alternatively, that any constitutional violation was harmless. Because Nunez-Diaz suffered severe and mandatory consequences…
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