Garcia v. State
Annotate this CaseIn 2001, Plaintiff, a Honduran national, pleaded guilty to a felony in South Dakota and received a four-year suspended sentence. In 2013, Plaintiff filed a petition for a writ of error coram nobis seeking to vacate his 2001 conviction, asserting that the conviction was invalid because he pleaded guilty without being given Padilla and Boykin advisements. The circuit court granted the State’s motion for summary judgment. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that because coram nobis was unavailable to remedy Plaintiff’s claimed Padilla and Boykin violations, the circuit court correctly granted summary judgment in favor of the State.
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