Criminal Defense of Immigrants

The key purpose of divisible statute analysis is always to determine which set of elements constitutes the offense of which the noncitizen was convicted:[269]

[269] See United States v. Calderon-Pena, 339 F.3d 320, 239 (5th Cir. 2003) (en banc) (looking to the record of conviction “for the limited purpose of determining which of a series of disjunctive elements a defendant’s conviction satisfies.”).