Sureshichandra M. Patel v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

SNEED, Circuit Judge:

Patel is an Indian national who overstayed his student visa. At his deportation hearing, he requested the privilege of voluntary departure but because he had been convicted in California of a felony involving moral turpitude, namely, receiving stolen property, the Immigration Judge ruled that he was ineligible for voluntary departure. Patel has appealed. We affirm. 1

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Patel was charged with two felony counts of receiving stolen property arising out of two apparently separate transactions. 2 Cal. Pen.Code § 496(1) (West Supp.1976). He was convicted by jury “of the crime of…