Legal Opinion
Wolde Wallace v. Reno
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 26, 1999No. 98-2317, 99-1596PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.
This pair of cases is the next installment in a series presenting legal questions of reviewability and retroactivity under newly enacted immigration statutes. The issues are legal ones, which we review de novo, and arise out of the following facts.
In No. 99-1596, the appellant is Carlos Lemos, a native of Portugal who entered the United States as an immigrant on December 18, 1974. In June 1995, Lemos was convicted in Rhode Island state court of unlawfully delivering cocaine. As a result, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”) began deportation proceedings…
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