Legal Opinion
Lujan-Jimenez v. Sessions
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided June 19, 2018No. 16-9555 & 17-9527PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LUCERO, Circuit Judge.
Alejandro Lujan Jimenez petitions for review from a final order of removal and an order by the Bureau of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") declining to sua sponte reopen removal proceedings. We dismiss the latter petition for lack of jurisdiction. Exercising jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (a), we grant the former.
The BIA incorrectly determined that Lujan's Colorado conviction for first degree criminal trespass, Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-4-502 , was a crime involving moral turpitude. Under the portion of the statute at issue, a defendant must have unlawfully entered a "motor…
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