Atty General, ___ F.3d ___, 2005 WL 3454321 (11th Cir. Dec. 19, 2005) (in determining the nature of a conviction for immigration purposes, the court may look only to the record of conviction of that specific offense, and not to the record of a separate offense of which the defendant was convicted), citing Matter of Short, 20 I. &. N. Dec. 136,139 (BIA 1989) (IJ could not rely on a separate conviction to determine whether the conviction at issue was a crime of moral turpitude, since moral turpitude cannot be viewed as "aris[ing] from some undefined synergism by which two offenses are combined to create a crime involving moral turpitude, where each crime individually does not involve moral turpitude").
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Eleventh Circuit