United States First Circuit

Petition for review of an order of removal is denied where the BIA correctly classified petitioner's conviction for the Massachusetts crime of indecent assault and battery on a person who has attained the age of fourteen as a "crime of violence" that rendered petitioner removable and ineligible for any form of relief from removal.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/14/2008
• Published 03/14/2008

Judges

• JOHN R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge., Before LYNCH, Circuit Judge, JOHN R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge, and HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Matt Cameron, for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Mark C. Walters, Assistant Director, and W. Manning Evans, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, for respondent.