At the time of his guilty plea to a charge of attempted criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, defendant was a legal resident of the United States. In a postconviction motion filed 17 years later, after immigration authorities initiated proceedings to deport defendant to Panama, defendant claimed that trial counsel affirmatively advised him that, because he had been in the United States for a prolonged period of time, his decision to plead guilty would...
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