Legal Opinion
Conteh v. Gonzales
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 22, 2006No. 05-1282PublishedCited by 90 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This case requires us to answer, for the first time, the question of how to determine whether an alien has been convicted of an aggravated felony for purposes of the Immigration & Nationality Act (INA). Following what it termed a “modified categorical approach,” the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) concluded, based on an array of materials, that the petitioner’s conviction for conspiracy to commit bank fraud was a conviction for an aggravated felony. See 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43). Accordingly it ordered removal. See id. § 1227(a)(2)(A)(iii). Although the BIA may have…
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