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(B)  Crimes of Moral Turpitude.
  
 
  
Robbery is a crime of moral turpitude.[40]
  
District Courts:
  
 
  
U.S. ex rel. Fontan v. Uhl, 16 F.Supp. 428 (S.D.N.Y. 1936) (holding that the offense, under French law, of not having paid one’s ship passage does not constitute a crime involving moral turpitude, even though designated or labeled as a “robbery”).
  
        
[40] See N. Tooby, J. Rollin & J. Foster, Crimes of Moral Turpitude §  9.27 (2005).

  









 

	

	 

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