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Immigrant Gets Second Bite at Plea Deal Apple Because Judge Didn’t Read Him Enough Deportation Warnings

Immigrant Gets Second Bite at Plea Deal Apple Because Judge Didn’t Read Him Enough Deportation Warnings

A non-citizen immigrant who admitted showing two men a gun and threatening to shoot them has had his quasi-guilty plea thrown out because the trial-court judge gave him one warning that he might be deported because of it but not two. Court papers say Denver Petit-Homme on August 6, 2016 drove to a barber shop near the intersection of Washington Street and Bowdoin Street in Dorchester, left the vehicle, approached two men, showed them a gun in his waistband, and threatened to shoot them. Then he

A non-citizen immigrant who admitted showing two men a gun and threatening to shoot them has had his quasi-guilty plea thrown out because the trial-court judge gave him one warning that he might be deported because of it but not two. Court papers say Denver Petit-Homme on August 6, 2016 drove to a barber shop near the intersection of Washington Street and Bowdoin Street in Dorchester, left the vehicle, approached two men, showed them a gun in his waistband, and threatened to shoot them. Then he…