Legal Opinion

Opinion No. (1997)

California Attorney General Reports

Decided January 8, 1997Published

1Opinion of the Court

DANIEL E. LUNGREN Attorney General ANTHONY M. SUMMERS Deputy Attorney General

THE HONORABLE BRETT GRANLUND, MEMBER OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE ASSEMBLY, has requested an opinion on the following question:

May California deport an illegal alien convicted of a crime as a condition of granting either probation or parole, and may it make it a crime for such illegal alien to return to the state?

CONCLUSION

California may not deport an illegal alien convicted of a crime as a condition of granting either probation or parole or make it a crime for such illegal alien to return to the state. However,…

2Cases cited27 opinions

  1. Hines v. DavidowitzSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
  2. Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1947
  3. Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. PaulSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  4. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. State Energy Resources Conservation & Development CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
  5. Fong Yue Ting v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1893

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