United States Second Circuit

Petition for review of finding that petitioner is ineligible for suspension of deportation, for failing to establish continuous physical residence in the U.S, is denied as 1996 amendments to the INA, providing that an alien-s period of continuous residence ended upon the commission of certain offenses, apply retrospectively to petitioner's 1984 criminal offense.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/06/2006
• Published 12/07/2006

Judges

• DENNIS JACOBS, Chief Judge., Before JACOBS, Chief Judge, WESLEY, HALL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael B. Berger, Berger & Berger (William H. Berger, on the brief), Buffalo, NY, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kirti Vaidya Reddy, Assistant United States Attorney (Michael J. Garcia, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, of counsel;  Neil M. Corwin, on the brief), for Respondent.