United States Ninth Circuit

A petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' (BIA) decision finding that petitioner's conviction for felony false imprisonment is a categorical crime involving moral turpitude (CIMT) is granted, where felony false imprisonment under California law is not a categorical CIMT because: 1) it does not require the intent to injure, actual injury, or a protected class of victim; and 2) courts in California have applied the statute to conduct that is not morally turpitudinous.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/10/2014
• Published 03/10/2014

Judges

• VINSON

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel