United States Ninth Circuit

A violation of California Vehicle Code section 20001(a), which criminalizes leaving the scene of an accident resulting in bodily injury or death, is not categorically a crime involving moral turpitude for purposes of 8 U.S.C. section 1227(a)(2)(A)(ii).

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/14/2008
• Published 01/14/2008

Judges

• IKUTA, Circuit Judge:, Before:  MARSHA S. BERZON and SANDRA S. IKUTA, Circuit Judges, and JAMES K. SINGLETON, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lucas Guttentag, Monica M. Ramirez, ACLU Foundation Immigrants' Rights Project, Oakland, CA, and Peter J. Eliasberg, Ahilan T. Arulanantham, ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jennifer J. Keeney, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for respondent.