United States Second Circuit

The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) is not impermissibly retroactive as applied to aliens who pleaded guilty following AEDPA's effective date, even if the criminal conduct underlying their convictions took place before AEDPA's effective date.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/07/2005
• Published 01/07/2005

Judges

• KEARSE, Circuit Judge., Before:  FEINBERG, KEARSE, and RAGGI, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Matthew L. Guadagno, New York, New York (Kerry William Breetz, Jules E. Coven, Breetz & Coven, New York, New York, on the brief), for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kristen Chapman, Assistant United States Attorney, Brooklyn, New York (Roslynn R. Mauskopf, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Varuni Nelson, Assistant United States Attorney, Brooklyn, New York, on the brief), for Respondents-Appellees.