Karlos Argiz v. United States Immigration

This is an appeal from a final judgment granting petitioner-appellant habeas corpus relief pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a). Appellant seeks review of the district court’s holding that he was not entitled to invoke the Interstate Agreement on Detainers or the Federal Speedy Trial Act in his pursuit of a speedy deportation hearing. We affirm.

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Appellant Karlos Argiz, a native of El Salvador, was convicted in Douglas County Circuit Court on April 26, 1979 of robbery in violation of Wis.Stats. § 943.32(l)(b). He was sentenced to a six-year term of imprisonment, and incarcerated at the Waupun…