Legal Opinion
Ada Anisia Lopez-Amaro v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided July 12, 1994No. 93-4694PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Senior Circuit Judge:
The petitioner, Ada Anisia Lopez-Amaro, appeals from an Immigration Board of Appeals decision finding her to be deportable to her native Cuba. In 1983 a Florida court convicted the petitioner of “murder with a pistol.” The Board determined that this was a conviction for a “firearms” offense; therefore, pursuant to section 241(a)(2)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1990 she could be deported.
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The petitioner is a native and a citizen of Cuba. She was paroled into the United States in 1972 and became a permanent lawful resident in April of…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- State v. OverfeltSupreme Court of Florida · 1984
- State v. RodriguezSupreme Court of Florida · 1992
- Mulcahey v. CatalanotteSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Kin Sang Chow v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1993
- Burgess v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1988
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3Cited by32 opinions
- Kuhali v. RenoCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2001
- Alfonso Bell v. Janet RenoCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2000
- King Sang Chow v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1997
- Kuhali v. RenoCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2001
- Elvis David Lewis v. U.S. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1999
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