Case Name: Claudia Vergara CASTANO, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2012-11-21
Citations: 119 So. 3d 1208
Docket Number: No. SC11-1571
Parties: Claudia Vergara CASTANO, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
Judges: POLSTON, C.J, and LEWIS, QUINCE, CANADY, LABARGA, and PERRY, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 119
Pages: 1208–1211

Head Matter:
Claudia Vergara CASTANO, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
No. SC11-1571.
Supreme Court of Florida.
Nov. 21, 2012.
H. Manuel Hernandez of H. Manuel Hernandez, P.A., Longwood, FL, for Petitioner.
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL; and Kristen Lynn Davenport and Wesley Harold Heidt, Assistant Attorneys General, Daytona Beach, FL, for Respondent.
Rebecca A. Sharpless, University of Miami School of Law, Immigration Clinic, Coral Gables, FL, for Amicus Curiae, Lawyers Association American Immigration.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
In Castano v. State, 65 So.3d 546 (Fla. 5th DCA 2011), the Fifth District Court of Appeal affirmed the denial of Claudia Ver-gara Castano's postconviction motion. We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const. In this timely filed initial postconviction motion, Castaño raised the same claim raised in Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. 356, 130 S.Ct. 1473, 176 L.Ed.2d 284 (2010), which held that defense counsel was deficient for failing to advise his client of mandatory deportation consequences for pleading guilty. Castano's postconviction proceeding was pending when the United States Supreme Court issued Padilla. Therefore, although we held that Padilla does not apply retroactively in Hernandez v. State, — So.3d - (Fla.2012), Padilla does apply to Castano's pending case. On that basis, we quash the Fifth District's decision and remand for further proceedings.
It is so ordered.
POLSTON, C.J, and LEWIS, QUINCE, CANADY, LABARGA, and PERRY, JJ., concur.
PARIENTE, J., concurs with an opinion, in which QUINCE and PERRY, JJ., concur.