The Fifth Circuit vacated the Board of Immigration Appeals’ decision and remanded, finding that the petitioner’s misdemeanor conviction for the possession of marijuana within 1,000 feet of his high school (a “drug-free zone”) under Texas law satisfied the personal-use exception under INA §237(a)(2)(B)(i).
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