Legal Opinion
Jatinder Pal Singh v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General Charles H. Demore
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 5, 2003No. 02-16476PublishedCited by 135 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MATZ, District Judge.
On this appeal from the District Court’s denial of a habeas corpus petition, we are presented with two familiar issues of habe-as jurisdiction. First, does a classification by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) that a crime committed by an alien facing removal was “particularly serious” constitute an exercise of discretion not reviewable on habeas corpus? Second, does a federal court have habeas jurisdiction to adjudicate an alien’s claim that in approving a removal order the BIA violated his rights under the United Nations Convention Against Torture or Other Cruel,…
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