United States Ninth Circuit

In a petition for review of the BIA's order removing petitioner from the U.S. based on his commission of a crime of moral turpitude, the petition is denied where the crime of aggravated assault under Canadian law may involve moral turpitude even in the absence of an explicit element of evil intent.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/10/2009
• Decided 08/11/2009
• Published 08/11/2009

Judges

• Before DAVID R. THOMPSON, MARSHA S. BERZON and N. RANDY SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Martin Avila Robles, Immigration Practice Group, P.C., San Francisco, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Tiffany Walters Kleinert, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.