Criminal Defense of Immigrants

Chapter

§12.1 I. Introduction
§12.2 II. Noncitizens in Juvenile Proceedings
§12.3 A. Defense Strategy
§12.4 B. Avoiding Damaging Admissions
§12.5 C. Immigration Detention
§12.6 D. Citizenship
§12.7 E. Special Immigrant Juvenile Status
§12.8 F. Finding of Juvenile Delinquency
§12.9 G. Sentence
§12.10 III. Noncitizen Minors in Adult and Youthful Offender Proceedings
§12.11 A. Conviction
§12.12 1. General Rule
§12.13 2. Eligibility for FJDA Transfer
§12.14 B. Foreign Adult Court Convictions of Minors
§12.15 C. Adult Court Jurisdiction Over Minor
§12.16 D. Post-Conviction Relief
§12.17 E. Sentence - Type of Institution
§12.18 F. Transfer from Juvenile to Adult Court under FJDA Not Possible for Conspiracy
§12.19 G. Transfer from Adult to Juvenile Court
§12.20 IV. Immigration Consequences of Juvenile Court Actions
§12.21 A. Conviction - Juvenile Court Adjudication Not a Conviction
§12.22 B. Discretionary Factor
§12.23 C. Deportability
§12.24 1. Conduct-Based Grounds
§12.25 2. False Claim to U.S. Citizenship
§12.26 3. Domestic Violence TRO Violation
§12.27 4. Other Grounds
§12.28 D. Inadmissibility
§12.29 1. Conduct-Based Grounds
§12.30 2. Controlled Substances: Admission by Minor Ineffective
§12.31 3. Crime of Moral Turpitude
§12.32 a. Admission by Minor Ineffective
§12.33 b. Youthful Offender Exception
§12.34 4. Reason to Believe Illicit Trafficker
§12.35 5. Visa Fraud
§12.36 6. Other Grounds
§12.37 E. Relief
§12.38 V. Resources

§ 12.10 (C)

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(C) Foreign Dispositions. Where a noncitizen is arrested abroad for an offense committed while under 18 years of age, and convicted in adult court, a question arises whether the adult-court disposition constitutes a conviction for immigration purposes. If the offense is one for which no transfer from juvenile to adult court is authorized by the Federal Juvenile Delinquency Act, the foreign disposition is not considered to be a conviction. See § 12.14, infra.