United States Ninth Circuit

Petition for review of an IJ decision that petitioner was ineligible for cancellation of removal because of a battery conviction is granted and the case remanded for further proceedings where there was insufficient documentation to establish that petitioner's prior conviction was necessarily a crime of domestic violence.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/06/2006
• Decided 10/04/2006
• Published 10/04/2006

Judges

• Before: DAVID R. THOMPSON, BERZON, and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Martin Resendez Guajardo, San Francisco, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Alison R. Drucker, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.