*2 HENDERSON, Before FAY and Circuit *, Judges, and NICHOLS Senior Circuit Judge.
ALBERT HENDERSON, J. Circuit Judge: Downs-Morgan appeals from
Derrick District Court order of the United deny- of Florida for the Southern District * Circuit, Nichols, Jr., sitting by designation. Judge Philip for the Federal Honorable U.S. Circuit pur- vacate his sentence petition
ing 1251(a)(ll), under 8 U.S.C. § 28 U.S.C. without first suant and excludable from § the United States un- conducting evidentiary hearing. Be- 1182(a)(23). der 8 U.S.C. May 29, On § petition in the the facts war- cause he filed a “Petition for Writ of Coram relief, we rant collateral reverse and re- Nobis, Motion for Leave to Withdraw Plea evidentiary hearing. mand for an Guilty and Motion to Judgment Vacate *3 and Sentence” in the district request- Nicaragua, resident of Morgan, a ing evidentiary hearing alleging conspiracy indicted in the district court for guilty plea that his was not entered intelli- import marijuana in to violation of 21 gently and that he was denied effective (Count 952(a), I) posses- U.S.C. §§ assistance of counsel. The district court marijuana sion with intent to distribute correctly petition treated the as a motion 841(a)(1), violation U.S.C. §§ pursuant 2255,2 made see, to 28 U.S.C. (Count II). According § allegations to the States, Wright v. United petition, pled he originally to (5th Cir.1980)(section 2255 motion used charges, changed both but later to collaterally attack constitutionality of guilty on I government Count after the guilty plea),3 and summarily agreed denied it on to dismiss Count II and his June 1984 without holding hearing.4 represented that the conviction would not subject deportation him to Nicaragua. appeal, Downs-Morgan On contends that deprived he was 23, 1983, process of due
On November
twenty
over
law
because the
apprise
months into his
trial court failed
year sentence,
three
him
Downs-Morgan
immigration
of the
applied
consequences
political
for
asylum
the United
alleging
and because
that his
he based his
anti-
communist views
subject
representation
him
erroneous
his at-
punishment
harsh
upon
torney
or death
his return
would not
subject
Nicaragua.
thus,
While
request
would not be re-
pending, he was
parole
released on
turned Nicaragua.
addition,
to the
In
urges
he
custody
Immigration
of the
that his attorney’s
Naturaliza-
advice constituted inef-
tion Service.1
fective assistance of counsel.5
He then learned for the first time that
The case must be remanded to the dis-
drug
conviction
subject
made him
trict court for an evidentiary hearing un-
1. The record does not disclose whether
clarification to resolve the conflict between the
acted
request.
this
orders,
June
1984 and June
Downs-Morgan
application
states that the
court vacated the referral mandate and affirmed
political asylum
denied,
will
automatically
denying
petition.
former order
presumably pursuant
1253(h)(2),
to 8 U.S.C. §
uphold
should this court
guilty plea.
arguments
5. The
appeal
slightly
raised on
are
argued
different from those
before the district
provides
2. The statute
part:
in relevant
Downs-Morgan
court.
originally
did not
seek
prisoner
A
custody
under sentence of a
judge’s
relief based on the trial
failure to inform
Congress
established
claiming
Act of
immigration consequences
him of the
of his
right
ground
to be released
fact,
guilty plea.
In
he admitted in a brief in
imposed
the sentence was
in violation of the
support
petition
of his
respon-
that it “is not the
Constitution or laws of the United States ...
sibility of the trial court to advise the defendant
imposed
move the court which
the sen-
deportation consequences
of federal
at the time
vacate,
tence to
set aside or correct the sen-
taking
guilty plea____”
Record at 50. On
tence.
however,
appeal,
appears
he
to assert that Fed.
28 U.S.C. § 2255.
requires
judge
R.Crim.P. 11
apprise
the trial
immigration
consequences
of the
of the
Prichard,
City
Bonner v.
country long before his criminal involve-
ment, whether, peculiar in view of the Key
circumstance of his first arrival
West, erasure of the conviction
