Heather Wise, Attorney at Law

02/02/2022

Restructuring Public Defense After Padilla: Stanford Law Review [Aka how to do crim/imm right!?]

https://review.law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2022/01/Eagly-et-al.-74-Stan.-L.-Rev.-1.pdf

In the 2010 landmark decision Padilla v. Kentucky, the Supreme Court held that the Sixth Amendment right to counsel demands that criminal defense attorneys inform their clients of adverse immigration consequences that may flow from a guilty plea. Although over a decade has passed since Padilla, astonishingly little is known about how
public defense systems have incorporated this watershed decision on the ground. This
Article presents the first empirical study of representation by public defenders in the postPadilla era.

08/19/2021

There is justice sometimes!

U.S. District Judge Miranda Du wrote in her ruling that the law has “racist, nativist roots.”

05/20/2021

"This was not only great enterprise news but also a great community service."
Just got great news! A news story about my DACA client and won an award! Woot!
From the author Chelsea Rose Kurnick:
The article "won a 2nd Place award from California News Publishers Association for Enterprise News Story for the article about your case.
The reviewer wrote a really lovely message, too, supporting that the article did exactly what we hoped it would do. What they said is below.
Weeklies with < 25,000 distribution
Enterprise News Story or Series - Second Place
Bohemian
Sonoma County DACA Recipient Battles with DA's Office Over DUI Charge
Chelsea Kurnick
"One of the best projects a newspaper can undertake is to look at a very complicated subject and present it in a way where the reader can understand the entire issue, in-depth. I read this as somebody who had zero knowledge of the issues that Dreamers face there. By the time I finished this in-depth piece, I understood the challenges faced by those being accused. I was able to form my own opinions without being pushed in a certain direction. This was not only great enterprise news but also a great community service."

05/05/2021

Tell us again why you wouldn’t want immigrants to come to this country? Less births=less people to keep the country going, less paying into Medicare, etc.

Oh also, tax the rich- in case no one has said that out loud today.

“Some experts have sounded the alarm on declining birth rates and what this will mean for the U.S. economy in the years to come. In a recent interview with "CBS This Morning" co-host Tony Dokoupil, Dowell Myers, who studies demographics at the University of Southern California, called the phenomenon a "crisis."”

Among teenagers, many of whom shifted to remote learning due to the pandemic, birth rates fell precipitously, according to data released by the CDC.

04/13/2021

"Even after serving his sentence, Guillermo now sits in a precarious position: Because of a double punishment written into American immigration law, his conviction bars him from legal status and citizenship, and he now faces permanent banishment from his entire family and the country that he has called home for 20 years. He has been caught in a punitive part of the US immigration system that advocates call the prison-to-deportation pipeline."

Biden must do more.

But the immigration reform bill currently making its way through Congress carries over punitive policies from previous administrations.

04/09/2021

Hi my name is Heather Wise. I’ll be your court appointed attorney. I love indigent defense and am honored to do this work.

04/04/2021

Woot!

The smell of burnt and unburnt ma*****na alone is no longer cause for New York Police Department officers to search vehicles, according a new NYPD memorandum.

03/31/2021

Way to go NY! Next the whole Country please. Don’t use our tax dollars to criminalize the good w**d.

New Yorkers 21 and older will be able to legally buy cannabis from authorized retail outlets, possess up to three ounces, and grow their own plants.

03/25/2021

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article250205350.html

“The common practice of conditioning freedom solely on whether an arrestee can afford bail is unconstitutional.”

03/17/2021

New Website up and running! 5 years in business. Nothing fancy we tried for plain and simple...

Heather Wise Law Office represents clients in Criminal Defense including DUI, Domestic Violence, Assault/Battery, Cannabis Offenses, Drug & Weapons Charges