United States Ninth Circuit

Petition for review of a decision finding petitioner ineligible for relief under Immigration and Nationality Act is denied since the circuit court was bound by an immigration judge's determination that petitioner's aggravated-felony conviction precluded him from demonstrating good moral character, a necessary predicate to relief.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/11/2003
• Decided 02/16/2006
• Published 02/16/2006

Judges

• BETTY B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge., Before B. FLETCHER and MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, Circuit Judges, and DAVID C. BURY, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steven W. Brown, Encinitas, CA, and Peter James Musser, Vista, CA, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Susan K. Houser;  Carl H. McIntyre, Jr.;   and Robert D. McCallum, Jr.;  U.S. Department of Justice, for the appellee.