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PEOPLE v. FORD

86 N.Y.2d 397 (1995)

657 N.E.2d 265

633 N.Y.S.2d 270

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Rudolph Ford, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided October 24, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Beldock Levine & Hoffman, New York City (Melvin L. Wulf, Peter A. Perlman and Karen Dippold of counsel), David Scheinfeld, Noah Simeon Scheinfeld and Robert Cini for appellant.

Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney of Kings County, Brooklyn (Seth M. Lieberman, Roseann B. MacKechnie and Richard T. Faughnan of counsel), for respondent.

Jonathan E. Gradess, Albany, and Stacy Wolf for New York State Defenders Association, amicus curiae.

Lucas Guttentag, New York City, Judy Rabinovitz and Arthur Eisenberg for American Civil Liberties Union and others, amici curiae.

Stern & Elkind (Kenneth H. Stern of the Colorado Bar, admitted pro hac vice, of counsel), Claudia Slovinsky, New York City, and Lory Rosenberg, of the District of Columbia Bar, admitted pro hac vice, for American Immigration Lawyers Association and others, amici curiae.

Chief Judge KAYE and Judges TITONE, BELLACOSA, SMITH, LEVINE and CIPARICK concur.

SIMONS, J.

This appeal raises the question whether Trial Judges or defense counsel are under a duty to warn defendants of the possible deportation consequences before entering a guilty plea. We conclude that there is no such duty, and we therefore affirm.

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On September 28, 1990, 19-year-old defendant Rudolph Ford was showing a gun to his girlfriend...

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