United States Ninth Circuit

Petition for review of a final order of removal is granted as petitioner's conviction under California Penal Code section 32 for accessory after the fact was not a conviction for a crime involving moral turpitude, for purposes of rendering him inadmissible and ineligible for cancellation of removal.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/13/2006
• Decided 09/19/2007
• Published 09/19/2007

Judges

• Before:  MARY M. SCHROEDER, Chief Circuit Judge, HARRY PREGERSON, STEPHEN REINHARDT, ALEX KOZINSKI, DIARMUID F. O'SCANNLAIN, HAWKINS, SIDNEY R. THOMAS, KIM McLANE WARDLAW, W. FLETCHER, RICHARD A. PAEZ, RICHARD C. TALLMAN, JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, RICHARD R. CLIFTON, JAY S. BYBEE, and CARLOS T. BEA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James Robert Patterson, Law Office of Lilia S. Velasquez, San Diego, CA, for the petitioner., Stephen W. Manning, Jennifer M. Rotman, and Jessica M. Boell, appeared on behalf of Amicus American Immigration Lawyers Association.


• For Appellees:
  
• Francis W. Fraser, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the respondent.