1st Circuit Orders Hearing On Efficacy Of Counsel’s Assistance In Fraud Plea

Mealey's (November 2, 2016, 9:24 AM EDT) -- BOSTON — A First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Oct. 31 reversed a ruling denying a defendant’s petition for a writ of coram nobis and ordered a federal judge in Puerto Rico to conduct an evidentiary hearing as to whether the man’s counsel properly informed him that his decision to plead guilty to four counts of insurance fraud and mail fraud would bar him from becoming a U.S. citizen (United States of America v. Vincent F. Castro-Taveras, No. 14-1879, 1st Cir.; 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 19561)....