United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel's failure to advise a defendant of collateral immigration consequences of the criminal process does not violate the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel, and petitioner showed no prejudice from counsel's purported failures to object to a standard of proof used at sentencing.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/18/2003
• Published 03/18/2003

Judges

• Before SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, GOODWIN and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Karen C. Winckler, Wright Judd & Winckler, Las Vegas, NV, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada, and Michael S. McGarry, Fraud Section, Criminal Division, United States Department of Justice, for the appellee.