Legal Opinion
Lupera-Espinoza v. Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided May 28, 2013No. 12-2007PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
HARDIMAN, Circuit Judge.
The question presented is whether an alien who has spent more than five years in prison for . an aggravated felony is eligible for a waiver of deportation under former Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) § 212(c). We hold that he is not.
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A native and citizen of Ecuador, Jorge Espinoza became a lawful permanent resident of the United States in 1980. In January 1994, he was served with an order to show cause charging him with deporta-bility on the basis of a February 1993 New York conviction for selling cocaine. In response, Espinoza filed an…
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