United States Ninth Circuit

Petitioner's petition for review of the BIA's denial of his application for withholding of removal is granted, where the BIA erred in holding that Petitioner's conviction under Cal. Penal Code section 273.5(a) for corporal injury was categorically a crime involving moral turpitude.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/12/2008
• Decided 06/03/2009
• Published 06/03/2009

Judges

• TASHIMA, Circuit Judge:, Before: A. WALLACE TASHIMA, M. MARGARET McKEOWN, and RONALD M. GOULD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John M. Pope, Stender & Pope, Phoenix, AZ, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lindsay E. Williams, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.