Supreme Court of California

Denial of defendant's Penal Code section 1016.5 motion to vacate a judgment, for failure to advise an alien defendant of the immigration consequences of a guilty plea, is an appealable order.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/08/2002
• Published 08/08/2002

Judges

•  CHIN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Norton Tooby, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Oakland, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Ronald A. Bass, Assistant Attorney General, Stan M. Helfman, Violet M. Lee and Sharon G. Birenbaum, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.