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• Practice Manual Updates, with new content added monthly
• The Aggravated Felonies Category and Crime indices, alphabetized by category and specific crime respectively, updated monthly
• The Crimes of Moral Turpitude Table, updated monthly
• Aggravated Felony Convictions -- Chapter 6,
  Criminal Defense of Immigrants (March, 2003)
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Practice Manual Updates

Because case law changes so rapidly, printed materials cannot keep up with the current state of the law. To ameliorate this problem, we provide on-line updates that correspond to the sections of our printed books, to notify our premium subscribers of the latest news in their respective fields.

Here's a sample update for the Criminal Defense of Immigrants practice manual, Chapter 5, section 7:

§ 5.7 b. The Offense Must Relate to a Drug Controlled Under Federal Law

CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES – RACKETEERING IS NOT "RELATED TO" A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
Lara-Chacon v. Ashcroft, 345 F.3d 1148 (9^th Cir. October 10, 2003) (Arizona racketeering statute is not ‘related to’ a controlled substance offense despite reference to a definition of racketeering that includes receipt of proceeds from prohibited drugs, as the racketeering offense does not require proof of any underlying drug offense, and noncitizen was not specifically charged with receipt of proceeds related to prohibited drugs).

 

The Aggravated Felonies Category Index covers all decisions of all courts defining what is, and is not, an aggravated felony, and organizes them according to the category of crimes that they belong to. In this case, the category is "Crime of Violence."

CRIME OF VIOLENCE - AUTOMOBILE HOMICIDE United States v. Gonzalez-Lopez, 335 F.3d 793, (8th Cir. July 14, 2003)(Utah conviction of automobile homicide, in violation of Utah Code Ann. § 76-5-207(1), held to be a crime of violence for purposes of illegal reentry 16-level sentence enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2(b)(1), since the Utah offense has as an element the use of physical force against another, irrespective of the predicate offense's mens rea element; no argument made that specific offense of conviction did not require use of force).

The Aggravated Felonies Crime Index covers the same cases, but organizes them by the specific name of the crime. The example shown above would be listed as "Automobile Homicide - Crime of Violence" in the Crime Index.

This table lists summaries of decisions of the Board of Immigration Appeals, and all federal courts, that state what offenses are and are not crimes of moral turpitude. The case in this example held that the crime was one of moral turpitude.

CRIME	CASE	STATUTE	HELD
PASSPORT FRAUD—FALSE STATEMENT IN PASSPORT APPLICATION	Bisaillon v. Hogan, 257 F.2d 435 (9th Cir. 1958), cert. denied, 358 U.S. 872, 79 S.Ct. 112, 3 L.Ed.2d 104 (1958)	18 U.S.C. § 1542	MT

 

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