Legal Opinion
Leslie Ward v. Eric Holder, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 15, 2013No. 12-3197PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BOYCE F. MARTIN, JR., Circuit Judge.
Leslie Ward petitions this Court to review the Board of Immigration Appeals’s order affirming the Immigration Judge’s order that he be removed to the United Kingdom. The Board agreed with the Immigration Judge that Ward had abandoned his lawful-permanent-resident status by spending three years in the United Kingdom caring for his mother, who suffered from dementia.
This case poses the following legal question: what is the appropriate degree of proof that the government must satisfy in a removal proceeding in which the government has charged a lawful…
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