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MORALES DIAZ v. STATE

No. 15-0862.

896 N.W.2d 723 (2017)

Roberto MORALES DIAZ, Appellee, v. STATE of Iowa, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed June 9, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, Kevin Cmelik and Sharon K. Hall , Assistant Attorneys General, for appellant.

Dan Vondra of Cole & Vondra, P.C., Iowa City, for appellee.

In this case, we consider the scope of an attorney's responsibility to advise a client who is an unauthorized alien in the United States of the immigration consequences of pleading guilty to a criminal offense. The district court held the attorney's advice was insufficient and ordered the defendant, Roberto Morales Diaz, be...

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