103 PADILLA v. KENTUCKY: KEEPING UP WITH SOCIETAL CHANGES – U.S. IMMIGRATION LAW PROPOSALS FOR LEGAL PROFESSIONALS IN AN EFFORT TO AVOID LEGAL MALPRACTICE BECAUSE OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL Nelda V. Trevino* I. INTRODUCTION This legal scholarly writing is illustrative of a combination oftwo legal p edagogic templates: a caseno te and an article. It can be classified as a casenote because it analyzes Padilla v. Kentucky , 1 a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision intimately tied to immigration law and proper Sixth Amendment rights afforded to non-citizens. 2 * I would like to express my most sincere gratitude to all those who gave their assistance and support in completion o f this paper. I want to thank Profes sor Rebecca Stewart for her guidance, advice and encourageme nt. I would also like t o thank Professor Imran B. Mirza, for it was his enthusiasm and passion for immigration law that ins pired and motivated me to write this paper. Also, a special thank you to the counsel mentioned from south Texas (Rio Grande Valley region) for their invaluable time and interviews. Finally, I would like to thank my parents for their encouragement and faith in my pursuit of the study of law, and, above all, God – for His guidance, mercy and unfailing love. 1 Padilla v. Kentucky, 130 S. Ct. 1473 (2010). On the other hand, this writing can also be described as an article because, with Padilla standing as its basis and foundation, it offers new proposals and ideas in an effort to ameliorate the transforming, ever-changin g and cumbersome immigration law practice of the U.S. 2 Adonia R. Simpson, Judicial Recommendations Against Removal: A Solution to the Problem of Deportation for Statutory Rape, 35 NEW ENG.J. ON CRIM &CIV.CONFINEMENT 489, 489-90 (2009) (“Non[-]citizens include immigrants who are lawful permanent residents (LPRs) and undocumented persons, as well as those temporarily in the United states for a fixed period of time, such as business visitors, tourists, students and temporary workers.” ).
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8/7/2019 Padilla v. Kentucky: Keeping Up with Societal Changes – U.S. Immigration Law Proposals for Legal Professionals in …