Legal Opinion
ESQUEDA
Board of Immigration Appeals
Decided July 1, 1994No. ID 3226PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Interim Decision #3226 MATTER OF ESQUEDA In Deportation Proceedings A-28964484 Decided by Board August 15, 1994 (1) Section 241(a)(11) of the Immigration and. Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1251(a)(11) (1988), which provides for the deportability of any alien "convicted of a violation of ... any law or regulation ... relating to a controlled substance," encompasses laws proscribing the use or being under the influence of a controlled substance. Matter of Hernandez-Ponce,
19 I&N Dec. 613
(BIA 1988), reaffirmed. (2) The element of guilty knowledge, or mens rea, is not irrelevant to a conviction…
2Cases cited55 opinions
- Morissette v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
- Robinson v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Woodby v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- United States v. DotterweichSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- United States v. FreedSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
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3Cited by7 opinions
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