Charles Geach v. Tom Ridge

GRUENDER, Circuit Judge.

Charles Geach (“Geach”), a citizen of the United Kingdom, was charged as inadmissible due to two foreign convictions. He was placed in exclusion proceedings because he last had entered the United States pursuant to advance parole. Throughout his administrative hearings, Geach was denied the opportunity to apply for suspension of deportation pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1254 (repealed 1996).2 After he was ordered excluded and had exhausted his administrative appeals, the district court3 denied his petition for habeas corpus relief. On appeal, Geach argues that the district…