Safe Havens

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§4.1 I. Introduction
§4.2 II. Checklist of Conviction-Based Grounds of Deportation
§4.3 III. Checklist of General Safe Havens
§4.4 IV. Alienage
§4.5 A. United States Citizens
§4.6 B. Nationals of the United States
§4.7 C. American Indians Born in Canada
§4.8 V. Non-Conviction Dispositions In General
§4.9 VI. Dispositions That Are Not Crimes
§4.10 A. Juvenile Delinquency Findings
§4.11 B. The Conviction Must Be for a Crime
§4.12 C. Foreign Convictions
§4.13 VII. Dispositions That Are Not Convictions
§4.14 A. Immigration Law Definition of Conviction
§4.15 B. Acquittal
§4.16 C. Dismissal Before Conviction
§4.17 D. Deferred Prosecution
§4.18 E. Deferred Verdict
§4.19 F. Deferred Sentence
§4.20 VIII. Convictions That Are Not Final
§4.21 A. Direct Appeal
§4.22 B. Slow Plea Dispositions
§4.23 C. Late Appeal
§4.24 IX. Convictions Eliminated by Post-Conviction Relief
§4.25 A. Judicial Recommendations Against Deportation
§4.26 B. Pardoned Offenses
§4.27 C. State Rehabilitative Relief
§4.28 D. Convictions Vacated as Legally Invalid
§4.29 E. Sentences Eliminated by Post-Conviction Relief
§4.30 X. Defective Convictions
§4.31 A. Convictions by Court Without Jurisdiction
§4.32 B. Convictions in Absentia
§4.33 C. Other Defects
§4.34 XI. Convictions that Do Not Follow �Admission�
§4.35 XII. Foreign Convictions

§ 4.13 (A)

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(A) Acquittal. Where a court or jury has returned a verdict of “not guilty,” the noncitizen has not suffered a conviction, and the disposition cannot trigger any conviction-based ground of deportation. See § 4.15, infra.