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CONVICTION " FINALITY

Jimenez-Guzman v. Holder, 642 F.3d 1294, 2011 WL 2547562 (10th Cir. Jun. 28, 2011) (Pending post-conviction motions or other collateral attacks do not negate the finality of a conviction for immigration purposes unless and until the conviction is overturned.); see Paredes v. Att'y Gen., 528 F.3d 196, 198"99 (3d Cir.2008) (adopting the reasoning of sister circuits and holding that the pendency of collateral proceedings does not vitiate finality).

jurisdiction: 
Tenth Circuit

POST-CONVICTION " FINALITY OF CONVICTION

Jimenez-Guzman v. Holder, 642 F.3d 1294, 2011 WL 2547562 (10th Cir. Jun. 28, 2011) (Pending post-conviction motions or other collateral attacks do not negate the finality of a conviction for immigration purposes unless and until the conviction is overturned.); see Paredes v. Att'y Gen., 528 F.3d 196, 198"99 (3d Cir.2008) (adopting the reasoning of sister circuits and holding that the pendency of collateral proceedings does not vitiate finality).

jurisdiction: 
Tenth Circuit

PRACTICE ADVISORY " CONVICTION " SENTENCE " SENTENCE REQUIRED FOR CONVICTION

There is some tension between the rule that the original sentence is added to probation-violation sentences, on the one hand, and the Song/Cota BIA cases on sentence modification that state that it is the final sentence that governs for purposes of assessing the immigration consequences of a judgment. Matter of Song, 23 I. & N. Dec. 173 (BIA 2001); Matter of Cota-Vargas, 23 I. & N. Dec. 849 (BIA 2005).

jurisdiction: 
Other

BIBLIOGRAPHY " RELIEF " PRIVATE BILLS

Maggio Kattar, Duane Morris and Penn State Law, Toolkit on Private Bills, Appendices, http://law.psu.edu/news/immigration_toolkit

jurisdiction: 
Other

CONVICTION " PROBATION VIOLATION " VIOLATION DOES NOT RESULT IN A NEW CONVICTION BUT A NEW SENTENCE FOR THE ORIGINAL CONVICTION

INA 101(a)(48)(A) (statutory definition of conviction); United States v. Hidalgo-Macias, 300 F.3d 281, 285 (2d Cir. 2002) (rejecting the argument that a one-year sentence on a violation of probation was a separate conviction from the conviction for the underlying offense, and holding that the probation violation did not make the underlying offense a crime of violence aggravated felony: "the imposition of a sentence of imprisonment following revocation of probation [in NY] is a modification of the original sentence"); In re Ahmed, 2005 WL 3952705 (Aug.

jurisdiction: 
Other

SAFE HAVENS " MISPRISON OF A FELONY

Active concealment, whether physical or verbal, is required for the elements [of misprision of a felony] to be established. See Christopher Mark Curenton, The Past, Present, and Future of 18 U.S.C. 4: An Exploration of the Federal Misprision of Felony Statute, 55 ALA. L. REV. 183, 185"86 (2003) (explaining the dichotomy between physical and verbal concealment, and noting the heightened standard for verbal concealment to include cases such as knowingly providing the police with completely false information); see also Roberts v. United States, 445 U.S.

jurisdiction: 
Other

CATEGORICAL ANALYSIS " RECORD OF CONVICTION " PRESENTENCE REPORT

United States v. Gonzalez-Aparicio, ___ F.3d ___, 2011 WL 2207322 (9th Cir. Jun. 8, 2011) (error was harmless in using presentence report to determine that violation of Arizonal Revised Statutes 13-1405, sexual contact with a minor, was a statutory rape offense under the illegal re-entry sentencing guidelines where the portion of the PSR used referred to state documents used in court, rather than a factual narrative).

jurisdiction: 
Ninth Circuit

CATEGORICAL ANALYSIS " RECORD OF CONVICTION " ADMISSIONS IN PROCEEDINGS

Pagayon v. Holder, 642 F.3d 1226 (9th Cir. Jun. 24, 2011) (per curiam) (removal order was properly based, in part, on admissions petitioner made before the immigration judge: Pagayon's admission was needed only to confirm that the conviction was for the charged crime. . . . An IJ may consider an alien's admissions regarding removability if they are corroborated by the narrow, specified set of documents that are part of the record of conviction, Tokatly, 371 F.3d at 620.

jurisdiction: 
Ninth Circuit

JUDICIAL REVIEW " HABEAS " BIA DENIAL OF STAY OF REMOVAL

Shaboyan v. Holder, ___ F.3d ___ (9th Cir. Jun. 29, 2011) (BIA denial of stay of removal can only be challenged by federal habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. 2241 in the United States District Court).

jurisdiction: 
Ninth Circuit

JUDICIAL REVIEW " JURISDICTION BAR " CLASS ACTION CHALLENGING IMMIGRATION DETENTION WITHOUT BOND

Alli v. Decker, ___ F.3d ___, 2011 WL 2450967 (3d Cir. Jun. 21, 2011) (district court has subject matter jurisdiction to consider due process class action suit of persons detained under INA 236(c) without bond, despite 8 U.S.C. 1252(f)(1)).

jurisdiction: 
Third Circuit

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