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Chaidez v. U.S. Oral Argument Transcript - U.S. Supreme Court, Nov. 1, 2012. - Stanford Law Professor Jeffrey L. Fisher argued for Ms. Chaidez.

crImmigration.com, Nov. 1, 2012 : " The online symposium on Chaidez v. United States continues today with contributions by Christopher N. Lasch, Craig Siegel, and Carlos M. García. On Monday, the symposium will feature several analyses of...

"The argument was a lawyerly-like exercise in appellate advocacy, with the Justices skillfully probing the legal arguments concerning a collateral attack on a criminal conviction, as well as the policies implicated by the retroactive application...

" In Padilla v. Kentucky (2010), the Court held that an ineffective assistance of counsel claim under the Sixth Amendment could be based on an attorney’s failure to inform a criminal defendant of the risk of deportation resulting from a plea...