United States Ninth Circuit
Ledezma-Garcia v. Holder, 03-73648
In a petition for review of the BIA's order removing petitioner from the U.S. based on his commission of an aggravated felony of sexually molesting a minor, the petition is granted where: 1) the 1988 law that made aliens deportable for aggravated felony convictions did not apply to convictions prior to November 18, 1988; and 2) neither Congress's overhaul of the grounds for deportation in 1990 nor its rewrite of the definition of aggravated felony in 1996 erased that temporal limitation.
Appellate Information
- Decided 03/29/2010
- Published 03/29/2010
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- United States Ninth Circuit