- The Ninth Circuit granted the petition for review and remanded, holding that the petitioner’s conviction for grand theft, in violation of California Penal Code §487(a), was not a categorical aggravated felony, because the statute is doubly overbroad in that it permits a conviction for theft of labor while the generic definition of theft does not, and also permits a conviction for a consensual taking.
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Grand Theft is not an aggravated felony?
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