Posted on October 15, 2018 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The BIA found that the amendment to §18.5 of the California Penal Code, which retroactively lowered the maximum possible sentence that could have been imposed for a foreign national’s state offense from 365 days to 364 days, does not affect the applicability of INA §237(a)(2)(A)(i)(II) to a past conviction for a crime involving moral turpitude “for which a sentence of one year or longer may be imposed.”
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Posted on July 23, 2018 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The Fourth Circuit held that Md. Crim. Law §7–104, which combines multiple theft offenses into a single statute, cannot categorically qualify as a CIMT under Diaz-Lizarraga and remanded for consideration for cancellation of removal.
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Posted on April 17, 2017 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
Assault with a deadly weapon or force likely to produce great bodily injury under California law is categorically a crime involving moral turpitude. Ceron v. Holder, 747 F.3d 773 (9th Cir. 2014) (en banc), distinguished.
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Posted on April 17, 2017 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
Assault with a deadly weapon or force likely to produce great bodily injury under California law is categorically a crime involving moral turpitude. Ceron v. Holder, 747 F.3d 773 (9th Cir. 2014) (en banc), distinguished
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Posted on April 11, 2017 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
Sexual solicitation of a minor under section 3-324(b) of the Maryland Criminal Law with the intent to engage in an unlawful sexual offense in violation of section 3-307 is categorically a crime involving moral turpitude.
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Posted on April 11, 2017 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
Sexual solicitation of a minor under section 3-324(b) of the Maryland Criminal Law with the intent to engage in an unlawful sexual offense in violation of section 3-307 is categorically a crime involving moral turpitude.
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Posted on November 27, 2016 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
Matter of ZARAGOZA-VAQUERO, 26 I&N Dec. 814 (BIA 2016)
The offense of criminal copyright infringement in violation of 17 U.S.C. § 506(a)(1)(A) (2012) and 18 U.S.C. § 2319(b)(1) (2012) is a crime involving moral turpitude.
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Posted on November 21, 2016 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
Petit larceny in violation of section 155.25 of the New York Penal Law, which requires an intent to deprive the owner of his property either permanently or under circumstances where the owner’s property rights are substantially eroded, is categorically a crime involving moral turpitude. Matter of Diaz-Lizarraga, 26 I&N Dec. 847 (BIA 2016).
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Posted on November 30, 2015 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
Where the petitioner was charged with removal on the basis of his 2000 clock-stopping crime involving moral turpitude (CIMT), the Third Circuit found that Nelson v. Att’y Gen., notOkeke v. Gonzales, controlled. As such, the court held that the commission of the CIMT permanently prevented the clock from restarting, and that the petitioner could not accrue the requisite period of continuous residency when he re-entered the United States in 2003.
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Posted on July 6, 2015 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The Ninth Circuit reversed, holding that if ICE detains an immigrant pending potential criminal prosecution, then that detention constitutes “official detention” within the meaning of 18 USC §3585(b), and the immigrant is accordingly entitled to credit toward his or her criminal sentence. The court also held that an immigrant is entitled to credit for all time spent in ICE detention subsequent to his or her indictment or the filing of formal criminal charges against him or her.
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