United States Ninth Circuit

A petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' (BIA) decision finding petitioner removable because there was reason to believe that he engaged in or assisted others in illicit trafficking in a controlled substance, based on circumstantial evidence and on his guilty plea to possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, is denied, where the BIA did not violate petitioner's due process rights by considering his guilty plea, even though this court overturned the resulting conviction on appeal, because this court overturned the conviction solely because the police officers lacked reasonable suspicion to conduct the traffic stop, a reason unrelated to the voluntariness of the guilty plea.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/27/2014
• Published 01/27/2014

Judges

• GRABER

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel