Legal Opinion
United States ex rel. Pappageanakis v. Shaughnessy
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided July 14, 1953PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
DIMOCK, District Judge.
This is a habeas corpus proceeding in which relator, an alien, claims that he is being'illegally held for deportation by immigration officials. The warrant of deportation is based on the ground that relator was convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude prior to his last entry into the United States and it refers to the Act of Feb. 5, 1917, § 19, formerly 8 U.S.C. § 155(a).
Relator first entered the United States on December 14, 1920, coming from his native country, Greece. On April 19, 1933 he was convicted, upon his plea of guilty in a federal court in New York, of…
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