Post-Conviction Relief for Immigrants

If the client has outstanding warrants, they must be cleared before the client’s liberty can be obtained during the post-conviction case.  Outstanding warrants also present the client in a terrible light to court and prosecutor when seeking a favorable exercise of discretion.  To avoid this problem, the client’s surrender must be negotiated on the outstanding warrants; the client must be defended on the underlying criminal case, as well as the probation or parole violation matter, and the client must serve any new sentence s/he receives before being released.  Those cases must be handled in such a way as not to trigger new immigration damage.  Only then can the post-conviction work on the original problem conviction or sentence be done.  This problem makes the whole case much more difficult — how much more difficult depends on the circumstances.