Legal Opinion
SWEETSER
Board of Immigration Appeals
Decided July 1, 1999No. ID 3390PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Interim Decision #3390 In re Edward Paul SWEETSER, Respondent File A30 437 320 - Cañon City Decided May 19, 1999 U.S. Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review Board of Immigration Appeals (1) Where the state statute under which an alien has been convicted is divisible, meaning it encompasses offenses that constitute crimes of violence as defined under
18 U.S.C. § 16
(1994) and offenses that do not, it is necessary to look to the record of conviction, and to other documents admissible as evidence in proving a criminal conviction, to determine whether the specific offense of…
2Cases cited23 opinions
- Taylor v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
- Woodby v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- United States v. Steven L. ParsonCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1992
- United States v. Charles Verdel FarnsworthCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1996
- United States v. Donnie Roy O'NealCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1991
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3Cited by17 opinions
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- Conteh v. GonzalesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2006
- Marlene Jaggernauth v. U.S. Attorney GeneralCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2005
- Juan Larin-Ulloa v. Alberto Gonzales, United States Attorney GeneralCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2006
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