Post-Conviction Relief for Immigrants

The effect of a JRAD was to preclude the INS and immigration courts from deporting or excluding the defendant on the basis of the conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude in the case in which the JRAD was granted.  See § 8.23, infra.  A JRAD also had other beneficial immigration effects.  See § 8.24, infra.  The JRAD was effective only as to the specific conviction(s) for which it was granted, however, and was not effective beyond its terms even as to other convictions suffered in the same criminal case.[63]

[63] Matter of Parodi, 17 I. & N. Dec. 608 (BIA 1980).