Safe Havens

(B)  Crimes of Moral Turpitude.[222]

It is unclear whether a conviction for misprision of a felony will be considered a crime of moral turpitude.  See § 7.107, supra. 

Board of Immigration Appeals:

Matter of SC, 3 I. & N. Dec. 350 (BIA 1949) (Mexican conviction for failure to prevent the commission of a crime held not CMT, under a statute which provided for punishment of anyone who did not “employ lawful means at his disposal to prevent the commission of crimes which he knows are to be committed or are being committed,” where the noncitizen had assisted and facilitated the commission of forgery and uttering of checks by endorsing them as an identifying endorser knowing that the person who was going to cash them was not the rightful payee named therein, the BIA used U.S. standards as to moral turpitude, and compared the offense to the common-law crime of misprision of felony, for which it said conviction was possible for mere failure or neglect without evil intent).

[222] See N. Tooby, J. Rollin & J. Foster, Crimes of Moral Turpitude § 9.5 (2005).