United States Eleventh Circuit

District court had jurisdiction to grant a habeas petition appealing a removal order against an alien, lawfully residing in the U.S., who pled guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud (an aggravated felony) and was ordered removed from the country.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/14/2002
• Published 05/16/2002

Judges

• BIRCH, Circuit Judge:, Before BIRCH and WILSON, Circuit Judges, and DOWD, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ovide Val, Miami, FL, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Dexter Lee, Anne R. Schultz, Miami, FL, Regina Byrd, Dept. of Justice/Civil Div./OIL, David V. Bernal, Office of Immigration Litigation Station, Washington, DC, for Respondents-Appellees.