Deportation Plea Bargaining has been used as a tool to deport noncitizen defendants. Johnson 2017. Johnson, Thea. Thea is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Maine School of the Creative Plea Bargain. University of Maine School of Law Law. “Measuring Digital Commons. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2975882 2017 [Premier] Maricopa County, Arizona, has an immigration-enforcement” “ On the other end of the spectrum is which model.171 In Maricopa County, prosecutors consider immigration consequences as a means of enforcing federal immigration law.172 For instance, prosecutors will charge defendants in state court with crimes that qualify as aggravated felonies or crimes of moral turpitude under federal in order to increase the chances that the noncitizen defendant will be deported immigration law in a later immigration proceeding. Heidi Altman has also given us a window into how prosecutors think about immigration by surveying 185 district attorneys in Brooklyn, New York. She found that, consequences although over half of the district attorneys surveyed believed that it was sometimes appropriate to modify a plea to mitigate negative immigration consequences, less than half actually did refashion pleas in practice for this vpurpose.175
Deportation Plea Bargaining has been used as a tool to deport noncitizen defendants. Johnson 2017. Johnson, Thea. Thea is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Maine School of Law. “Measuring the Creative Plea Bargain. University of Maine School of Law Digital Commons. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2975882 2017 [Premier] On the other end of the spectrum is Maricopa County, Arizona, which has an “ immigration-enforcement” model.171 In Maricopa County, prosecutors consider immigration consequences as a means of enforcing federal immigration law.172 For instance, prosecutors will charge defendants in state court with crimes that qualify as aggravated felonies or crimes of moral turpitude under federal immigration law in order to increase the chances that the noncitizen defendant will be deported in a later immigration proceeding. Heidi Altman has also given us a window into how prosecutors think about immigration consequences by surveying 185 district attorneys in Brooklyn, New York. She found that, although over half of the district attorneys surveyed believed that it was sometimes appropriate to modify a plea to mitigate negative immigration consequences, less than half actually did refashion pleas in practice for this vpurpose.175
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