The New México Court of Appeals, the state’s intermediate appellate court, held that Padilla v. Kentucky, 130 S. Ct. 1473 (2010), applies retroactively. State v. Ramirez, 278 P.3d 569, No. 2012-NMCA-057, slip op. (NM Ct. App. April 16, 2012) (Kennedy, Bustamante, and Fry, JJ.), cert. granted June 5, 2012. Judge Kennedy wrote the panel’s decision. This case involves an attempt to vacate multiple 1997 convictions for misdemeanor possession of less than one ounce of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, and concealing identity on the basis that Ramirez’s attorney did not inform him of the [...]