Safe Havens

(B)  Crimes of Moral Turpitude.[32]

Board of Immigration Appeals:

Matter of Farinas, 12 I. & N. Dec. 467 (BIA 1967) (Washington conviction of abducting a female under the age of 18 for the purpose of sexual intercourse or marriage without consent of her legal guardian held not CMT, since minimum conduct does not involve CMT).

Matter of R, 6 I. & N. Dec. 444 (1954) (transportation of a consenting adult female across state lines for purposes of illicit but not commercialized sex, in violation of the Mann Act, held not to be a crime involving moral turpitude).

Matter of Farinas, 12 I. & N. Dec. 467 (BIA 1967) (abduction for purpose of marriage is not a crime involving moral turpitude). 

Fifth Circuit:

Hamdan v. INS, 98 F.3d 183 (5th Cir. 1996) (Louisiana conviction, under La.Rev.Stat. § 14:45, for attempted simple kidnapping was not a crime involving moral turpitude, since the statute covered some conduct — parents taking children in violation of custody order — that did not inherently involve moral turpitude, and there was no evidence that the defendant’s conduct did not fall within the portion of the statute that did not involve moral turpitude).

[32] See N. Tooby, J. Rollin & J. Foster, Crimes of Moral Turpitude § 9.19 (2005).