United States First Circuit
Blackman v. Holder, 13-2129
Petition for review of a BIA decision affirming an order that Panama-native petitioner be removed is denied where the description of deportation as a "penalty" in Padilla v. Kentucky,559 U.S. 356 (2010), does not alter the longstanding notion that removal is non-punitive and thus does not implicate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment or related constitutional protection.
Appellate Information
- Decided 06/24/2015
- Published 06/24/2015
Judges
- HOWARD
Court
- United States First Circuit