United States Second Circuit

Petition for review of an order denying cancellation of removal for failure to satisfy the seven-year continuous residence requirement of the now-repealed INA section 212(c) is denied where an application of the "criminal-offense stop-time rule" under 8 U.S.C. section 1229b(d)(1)(B) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act of 1996 ("IIRIRA") to petitioner's pre-IIRIRA offense was not impermissibly retroactive.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/18/2007
• Decided 04/23/2008
• Published 04/23/2008

Judges

• Before: WALKER, STRAUB, and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Leonardo Zuluaga Martinez, pro se, Framingham, Mass., for Petitioner., Nancy Morawetz, Washington Square Legal Services, New York University School of Law, New York, N.Y., Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lizas Murcia, Assistant United States Attorney (Terrance P. Flynn, United States Attorney for the Western District of New York, on the brief), Buffalo, N.Y., for Respondent.