Legal Opinion
Sousa v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 22, 2000No. 99-2049PublishedCited by 88 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.
The petitioner in this case, Artur Manuel Sousa, is a 31-year-old native and citizen of Portugal. He entered the United States with his parents as an immigrant in 1971. On June 29, 1990, Sousa was convicted of unarmed robbery in the Superior Court in Cambridge, Massachusetts and given a suspended sentence of 3 to 5 years of imprisonment. In 1996, Sousa was found to be in violation of the terms of his probation and was ordered to serve the suspended prison term.
On September 3, 1998, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”) began removal proceedings against…
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