United States Third Circuit

A petition for review from a denial of petitioner's motion to reopen his immigration proceedings is granted and the matter remanded for further proceedings where the BIA should not have ignored the question of whether petitioner was still removable for committing a crime involving moral turpitude by virtue of his vacated conviction.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/07/2006
• Decided 06/21/2006
• Published 06/21/2006

Judges

• Before RENDELL and AMBRO, Circuit Judges, and SHAPIRO, District Judge.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Regis Fernandez, [ARGUED], Newark, NJ, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jonathan Potter, [ARGUED], Michael P. Lindemann, John D. Williams, Lyle D. Jentzer, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.