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We design personalized treatment programs to provide each abuser with the greatest chance of a successful recovery outcome. Our comprehensive networking system works hand in hand with all of the drug treatment centers in New York. At Drug Rehab New York we know that each individual is unique and are treated as such. Deciding upon a treatment option in New York, or anywhere can be a daunting task for any individual or family, we will guide you through each step of a comprehensive treatment plan for you or your loved one. We are determined in our mission, that every drug and/or alcohol abuser in New York. that has a desire to change their life will be given a chance to recover from their addiction and we are dedicated to ensuring that they are given the opportunity to do so.
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Ithaca, New York man cries foulALBANY, New York -- It was an otherwise pedestrian drug case. A man cops a plea bargain to possessing cocaine and marijuana. The suspect was a Jamaican citizen who had lived in the United States for 25 years, raising a family in Upstate New York.
Now, the federal government is seeking to deport him, a standard practice following such convictions. But here's the twist: His court-appointed lawyer has admitted he didn't tell the man that by pleading guilty he risked deportation. In fact, Bruce McDonald was told there was no such danger.
Now, McDonald, 41, who works as a chef in Ithaca, is asking the state's highest court to let him withdraw his guilty plea -- so he can avoid being sent out of the country. The case is expected to be decided in the next four to six weeks.
"He found out the day after he was sentenced," said Alfred O'Connor, a lawyer who took up McDonald's case on appeal. McDonald's first attorney "steered him dead wrong," O'Connor said.
That's sufficient grounds to annul McDonald's conviction and order a new trial, O'Connor told the state Court of Appeals last week.
Not so, countered Tompkins County District Attorney George Dentes. Not only does McDonald have to prove he got bad advice, but also he has to show it would've made a difference in the outcome of a trial, Dentes said. That hasn't happened, he said.
New York police arrested McDonald in 1999 after he was involved in two marijuana buys by an undercover New York state trooper on the Cornell campus, where he worked in a kitchen, according to court documents. New York police seized nine ounces of marijuana and one-third of an ounce of cocaine from his apartment.
The day his trial was set to begin, McDonald pleaded guilty to one count each of marijuana possession and sale. He was sentenced to one-to-three years in prison. The next day, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service served him with a notice of deportation.
McDonald's court-appointed lawyer admitted he'd told McDonald that he would not face deportation because of his longtime status as a legal alien -- 25 years -- and because his wife and three daughters were U.S. citizens. That was incorrect.
Since 1996, the federal government has deported just about any one convicted of any charge more serious than possessing a very small amount of marijuana, said Jill Nagy, a Troy attorney who specializes in immigration.
"I've seen a lot of, from my point of view, heartbreaking cases," Nagy said. "But not much can be done about it. It's an automatic deportation. There really isn't a solution other than to try to get the conviction removed."
McDonald asked Tompkins County court to do so. It turned him down. So did the mid-level Appellate Division. "There is no indication how (McDonald) might have been able to avoid conviction," the Albany-based court said in a 5-0 decision.
A key legal point, District Attorney Dentes said, is that McDonald didn't claim that he would've rejected a plea bargain until after the county court refused to lift his conviction.
"There's no place in the record where (McDonald) says he would not have pleaded guilty and gone to trial if he had been properly advised about deportation," Dentes said, sparking an exchange with Chief Judge Judith Kaye.
"What about the defense statement that if you'd have said peep about any of this, he would've" gone to trial? Kaye said.
Dentes didn't answer directly, but said McDonald failed to claim that the bad advice would've made a difference in the eventual resolution of the case.
McDonald's lawyer said the prosecutor and the lower courts have interpreted the law incorrectly. All McDonald has to show is that he would've acted differently if properly advised, O'Connor said.
But the judges seemed to search for verification that McDonald would have rejected the plea bargain offer by prosecutors.
"Is there anything in the record that shows a reasonable probability that he would've gone to trial, had he not been misled?" asked Judge Albert Rosenblatt, sifting through transcripts. "Where is that? Could you just show us where that is in the papers?"
O'Connor replied that McDonald asked the local court to throw out his plea within weeks of agreeing to it.
McDonald served one year in state prison, then was released on parole. He now has four daughters and still lives in Ithaca, New York. He has been granted a temporary delay in the deportation proceedings until the New York court case is resolved.
"This case plucks at the heartstrings," Dentes said a day after the court hearing. "But it's really not a case for our courts to dwell on -- because Congress really makes the laws for deportation. If there's going to be an out for people who have been here a long time or who have children, it's up to Congress."
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