United States Ninth Circuit

Petition for review of the BIA's order removing petitioner from the U.S. based on his felony conviction for receipt of a stolen vehicle in violation of section 496d(a) of the California Penal Code, the petition is denied where a conviction under that statute qualified categorically as a conviction for an aggravated felony. The court also holds that a conviction under such statute does not categorically constitute a crime involving moral turpitude.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/19/2010
• Published 02/19/2010

Judges

• Before BARRY G. SILVERMAN, RICHARD R. CLIFTON, and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bernadette W. Connolly, San Jose, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gregory G. Katsas, Assistant Attorney General, Christopher C. Fuller, and Zoe J. Heller, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the respondent.