Santos Gonzalez De Lara v. United States of America

THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge:

Santos Gonzalez de Lara, petitioner-appellant, was born in Mexico on November 1, 1945, the son of a Mexican national father and an American citizen mother. He was admitted to the United States on December 2, 1960, as a resident alien. On March 14, 1968, he was convicted in a Texas district court for unlawful possession of marijuana and placed on probation. When petitioner had satisfactorily complied with the con ditions of his probation, the state court, pursuant to petitioner’s motion under section 7 of the Texas Adult Probation and Parole Law, 1 set aside the…