The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted an ineffective assistance of counsel claim where the defense attorney failed to investigate a defendant’s plausible derivative citizenship claim. United States v. Juarez, No. 09-20764, slip op. (5th Cir. Feb. 24, 2012) (Reavley, Elrod, and Graves, JJ.). Judge Graves wrote the panel’s opinion. This case involves an individual who was born in México and entered the United States with his mother as a six-year-old. Prior to the defendant’s eighteenth birthday, his mother naturalized. In addition, he married a U.S. citizen prior to turning [...]