Ninth Circuit: California Immigrants Cannot be Deported for Carjacking

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Publish Date:
January 29, 2018
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Courthouse News Service

Summary

A prior conviction for carjacking in California can no longer serve as the sole basis for deporting an immigrant with legal permanent resident status, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled Monday.

Brittany Benjamin ’18, a third-year Stanford University law student, with the college’s Mills Legal Clinic, represented the petitioner, Roberto Solorio-Ruiz.

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