Legal Opinion
Freeman v. Holder
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 8, 2010No. 09-1006PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEAM, Circuit Judge.
Sylvanus Biko Freeman, a citizen of Liberia, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) denial of his motion to reopen his removal proceedings. We deny the petition in part and dismiss the remainder for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.
I. BACKGROUND
In 1997, Freeman entered the United States as a refugee. In 2006, he pled guilty in Minnesota to Felony Financial Transaction Card Fraud, for which he received a suspended sentence of one year and one day. Less than a year later, Freeman violated his parole, and his suspended sentence was, accordingly,…
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