United States Seventh Circuit

Petition for review of order that petitioner be removed to his native Mexico for committing two crimes of moral turpitude -- which order was followed by vacatur of the two convictions by the state court -- is dimissed for failure to exhaust administrative remedies where petitioner did not ask the BIA to reopen his case in light of the vacated convictions, but instead petitioned the district court and then the court of appeals.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/11/2006
• Decided 12/07/2006
• Published 12/07/2006

Judges

• SYKES, Circuit Judge., Before FLAUM, WILLIAMS, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mary L. Sfasciotti (argued), Chicago, IL, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Craig A. Oswald (argued), Sheila M. McNulty, Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Respondents-Appellees.