Legal Opinion
Mellouli v. Lynch
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 1, 2015No. 13-1034PublishedCited by 276 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ginsburg
This case requires us to decide how immigration judges should apply a deportation (removal) provision, defined with reference to federal drug laws, to an alien convicted of a state drug-paraphernalia misdemeanor.
Lawful permanent resident Moones Mellouli, in 2010, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor offense under Kansas law, the possession of drug paraphernalia to "store, contain, conceal, inject, ingest, inhale or otherwise introduce a controlled substance into the human body." Kan. Stat. Ann. § 21-5709 (b)(2) (2013 Cum. Supp.). The sole "paraphernalia" Mellouli was charged with possessing was a…
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