United States Ninth Circuit

In a petition for review of the BIA's order removing petitioner from the U.S., the petition is granted where Arizona Revised Statutes section 13-1405, which criminalizes sexual conduct with a minor under eighteen years of age, did not constitute an aggravated felony for the purposes of immigration law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/20/2010
• Published 05/20/2010

Judges

• Before PAMELA ANN RYMER and M. MARGARET McKEOWN, Circuit Judges, and PATRICIA C. FAWSETT, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Erika Anne Kreider, Tuscon, AZ, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Nancy E. Friedman, United States Department of Justice, Civil Division/Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.