Legal Opinion
Sokha Sun v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General Immigration and Naturalization Service Robert Coleman, District Director of Ins
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 4, 2004No. 02-36132PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BERZON, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner Sokha Sun was born in a refugee camp in Thailand as a Cambodian refugee. He entered the United States at the age of two-and-a-half months, on July 24, 1979. Sun’s status was adjusted to lawful permanent resident (“LPR”) in August 1983, retroactive to his date of entry. One of Sun’s sisters is an American citizen, and his mother and another sister are LPRs.
In February 2001, Sun pled guilty to possession of a stolen firearm, and was sentenced to a year and a day in jail. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”) 1 subsequently issued a Notice to Appear,…
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