California Court of Appeal

Trial court's denial of defendant's motion to vacate a 1988 conviction for marijuana related crimes, resulting in his deportation from the US in 1995 where he returned two years later illegally, is affirmed where: 1) defendant entered his guilty pleas with advisement by the court of the possible immigration consequences; and 2) since the court gave a proper alien status advisement, defendant's remaining claims are not wrongs encompassed by the scope of Penal Code section 1016.5.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/11/2009
• Published 12/11/2009

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Law Offices of Brian D. Lerner, Brian D. Lerner, Long Beach, and Christopher A. Reed, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, Carlos A. Martinez and Wanda Hill Rouzan, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.