Legal Opinion
Aguilar-Turcios v. Holder
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 23, 2014No. 06-73451PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PAEZ, Circuit Judge:
In this petition for review of a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA” or “Board”), we address whether Petitioner Rigoberto Aguilar-Turcios’s conviction under Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (“UCMJ”) qualifies as an “aggravated felony” as defined in 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(I). For the reasons discussed below, we conclude that Aguilar-Turcios’s Article 92 conviction is not an aggravated felony. We therefore grant the petition and remand this case to the BIA with instructions to vacate the removal order against him.
I. BACKGROUND
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