Program Chair and Presenter:
Kate F. Drury
Kate Drury Law LLC
Waupaca
Presenters:
Teddy Chadwick
Fernandez, Chadwick & Crouse
West Milwaukee
Benjamin M. Crouse
Crouse Law LLC
Milwaukee
Natalia A. Lucak
Community Immigration Law Center
Madison
Andrew I. Martinez
Martinez & Ruby LLP
Baraboo
Melissa Nepomiachi
Wisconsin State Public Defenders Office
Milwaukee
Aissa I. Olivarez
Community Immigration Law Center
Madison
Timothy J. Pierce
State Bar of Wisconsin
Madison
8:30 a.m. Crimmigration Basics
- An understanding of defense counsel's obligations to non-citizen clients under Padilla
- How to screen and identify non-citizen clients and what information is needed to provide Padilla advice
- An explanation of the different types of immigration consequences and criminal statutes that trigger those consequences
- Litigation/negotiation strategies to avoid or mitigate immigration consequences for non-citizen clients.
Melissa Nepomiachi
9:20 a.m. ICE detention and Enforcement Priority Updates
Kate F. Drury, Aissa I. Olivarez
10:30 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. Employing the Categorical Approach for Safer Immigration Pleas & More Effective Removal Defense
- Using the categorical and modified categorical approaches to audit Wisconsin charges for immigration consequences
- Structuring plea negotiations to avoid triggering removability grounds
- Coordinating with immigration counsel to mitigate future detention and removal risk
Benjamin Crouse, Teddy Chadwick
12:00 p.m. Lunch (on your own)
1:00 p.m. Litigating immigration in a criminal case
Andrew I. Martinez
2:00 p.m. Ethical Issues and Implications in Crimmigration Cases
- The scope of client confidentiality when faced with the desire to expedite proceedings
- How to address court orders to disclose information
- Outline the role and permissible actions of criminal defense attorneys and immigration attorneys working together on a case
- Emphasize the importance of being a zealous advocate, but balancing that with avoiding frivolous legal representation
- Address the ethics of plea bargaining with confidential information
- Discuss the importance of maintaining confidential communication with clients, and the challenges involved in these cases
- How to provide legal information about potential adverse consequences that a client may experience
- Scope of representation for immigration attorneys and for criminal defense attorneys
Natalia A. Lucak, Timothy J. Pierce
2:50 p.m. Break
3:05 p.m. Panel Presentation: Effective strategies to accomplish client-centered objectives (writs, stipulated facts, bond/custody)
4:00 p.m. Program Concludes
- Reduce the risk of unintended immigration fallout from plea decisions
- Advise clients about detention possibilities and enforcement trends
- Apply strategies that improve outcomes in both criminal defense and removal contexts
- Enhance your ability to accomplish client-centered objectives
- Earn an ethics credit directly tied to crimmigration practice
- Immigration attorneys
- Criminal defense lawyers
- Attorneys with noncitizen clients
- Prosecutors
- Family lawyers
- Corporation counsel
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