United States Ninth Circuit

In a petition for review of the BIA's denial of petitioner's motion to reopen his removal proceeding, the petition is denied where petitioner was statutorily ineligible under 8 U.S.C. section 1229b(b) for cancellation of removal based on his conviction for corporal injury to a spouse, an offense described in 8 U.S.C. section 1227(a)(2), and the petty offense exception in 8 U.S.C. section 1182(a)(2) was inapplicable.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/02/2009
• Decided 01/06/2010
• Published 01/06/2010

Judges

• Before THOMAS G. NELSON, JAY S. BYBEE and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert F. Jacobs, Downey, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lyle D. Jentzer, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.