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U.S. v. CERNA

No. 09-1170-cr.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Appellee, v. JOSE RICARDO CERNA, also known as Jose Cerna, also known as Rocardo Cerna, also known as Jason Padilla, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: April 27, 2010.

Errata Filed: May 10, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

DANIEL L. STEIN, Assistant United States Attorney (Randall W. Jackson, Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel), for Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY, for Appellee.

DARRELL B. FIELDS, Federal Defenders of New York, Inc., New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before: KATZMANN and HALL, Circuit Judges, and RAKOFF, District Judge.

KATZMANN, Circuit Judge.

This case gives us occasion once again to take note of the exceptionally poor quality of representation often provided by attorneys retained by aliens as they attempt to negotiate the complexities of our immigration law. See Aris v. Mukasey, 517 F.3d 595, 596 (2d Cir. 2008). Here, despite the fact that the immigration judge ("IJ") specifically found that the defendant was eligible for relief from deportation...

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