United States Ninth Circuit

In a petition for review of petitioner's removal based on his 1988 conviction for sexually molesting a minor in Oregon, the petition is granted where: 1) the 1988 law that made aliens deportable for aggravated felony convictions did not apply to convictions prior to November 18, 1988; and 2) neither Congress's overhaul of the grounds for deportation in 1990 nor its rewrite of the definition of aggravated felony in 1996 erased that temporal limitation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/22/2010
• Published 12/22/2010

Judges

• Marsha S. Berzon

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen W. Manning, Peter D. Keisler