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Supreme Court to decide when relief from plea is justified by failure to understand adverse immigration consequences

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a)(1), which allows relief if there’s been “prejudicial error damaging the moving party’s ability to meaningfully understand, defend against, or knowingly accept the actual or potential adverse immigration consequences of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere.” ” The court granted and transferred in Hutcheson v.