No Writ Based on Immigration Consequences

By Deborah Elkins
Published: January 9, 2012

Tags: Criminal, Fairfax County Circuit Court, Judge Jane Marum Roush, Virginia Circuit Courts

A Fairfax Circuit Court says a woman who rejected the prosecutor’s offer to allow her to plead guilty to misdemeanor shoplifting, and who was convicted by a jury of felony shoplifting, is not entitled to a writ of coram vobis on a claim she did not understand her felony conviction might jeopardize her immigration status. Petitioner ...

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