Legal Opinion
United States v. Lopez-Velasquez
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 7, 2010No. 07-30241PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CALLAHAN, Circuit Judge:
The district court dismissed the indictment against Edmundo Lopez-Velasquez for illegal reentry on the ground that the immigration judge (“IJ”) presiding over his deportation hearing had a duty to inform him of discretionary relief under § 212(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. See 8 U.S.C. § 1182(c) (1994) (repealed 1996). Under the law as understood at the time of the hearing, Lopez-Velasquez was four years short of the mandatory seven-year domicile requirement for § 212(c) relief. Lopez-Velasquez contends that his domicile should have been calculated…
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