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§ 8.51 (A)
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(A) Aggravated Felonies. See § 7.79, supra.
The aggravated felony statute includes: “an offense relating to commercial bribery, counterfeiting, forgery, or trafficking in vehicles the identification numbers of which have been altered for which the term of imprisonment is at least one year.”[178]
[178] INA § 101(a)(43)(R), 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(R). See N. Tooby, Aggravated Felonies § 5.30 (2003).
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AGGRAVATED FELONY - FORGERY - DOCUMENT FORGERY
Vizcarra-Ayala v. Mukasey, __ F.3d __, 2008 WL 184954 (9th Cir. Jan. 23, 2008) (California conviction for violation of California Penal Code 475(c) is not categorically an aggravated felony offense "related to" forgery, because the statute encompasses real, unaltered documents, and thus falls outside the generic definition of "forgery" applied to the aggravated felony category).