Legal Opinion
Felix Sutherland v. Janet Reno, Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 20, 2000No. 1999PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AMENDED OPINION
SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge:
Felix Sutherland, a citizen of Trinidad and a permanent resident of the United States, petitions this Court for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) affirming that he is eligible for removal under 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(2)(E)(i) as an alien convicted of a crime of domestic violence based upon his July 1998 conviction in Massachusetts for indecent assault and battery on a person over the age of fourteen. Petitioner claims that his conviction does not satisfy either of the two requisite elements for a “crime of domestic violence”…
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