Holding that the distinction between crimes that involve moral turpitude and those that do not corresponds "to the distinction between crimes that are malum in se and crimes that are malum prohibitum"
Upholding BIA determination that involuntary man-slaughter, where alien "recklessly cause[d] the death of her child by consciously disregarding a substantial and unjustifiable risk to life," is a crime involving moral turpitude
Holding that in the context of the felony flight statute, “ ‘immediately’ means stopping as soon as reasonably possible once signaled by a police officer to halt,” and that given the facts of the case, “the trier of fact could well have found he did not meet the requirements of ‘immediately’ ”
In Duffy, the Court of Appeals held that the lawfulness of a police stop is irrelevant to a charge of attempting to elude because the crime is focused solely on the defendant's response to the stop.
8 U.S.C. § 1229a Cited 6,436 times 8 Legal Analyses
Granting a noncitizen the right to file one motion to reopen and providing that “the motion to reopen shall be filed within 90 days of the date of entry of a final administrative order of removal”
8 U.S.C. § 1229b Cited 5,213 times 24 Legal Analyses
Granting the Attorney General discretion to cancel the removal of an alien who has “been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty by a ... parent who is ... a United States citizen”