May 6, 2016
In a recent speech, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens discussed Professor Gabriel "Jack" Chin's paper Effective Assistance of Counsel and the Consequences of Guilty Pleas.
Justice Stevens relied on the paper in his majority opinion in Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. 356 (2010), which held that criminal defense attorneys were required to advise clients about the possibility of deportation. As Justice Stevens noted, the Court also relied on Professor Chin's work in Chaidez v. United States, 133 S. Ct. 1103 (2013), holding that Padilla would not be retroactively applied to cases which were already final when it was decided.
