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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: rangerrebew on July 26, 2019, 09:41:06 am
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The Ninth Circuit Substitutes the Word "Plausible" for "Reasonable Probability" to Give a Convicted Child Molester a Chance to Avoid
Deportation
By Dan Cadman on July 24, 2019
On July 18, the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (9-CCA) headquartered in San Francisco filed a decision in the case of Flores v. Barr.
Daniel Flores is a Mexican citizen residing in the United States who was convicted in this country of sexual abuse of a minor. Claiming ineffective assistance of counsel, he appealed to the 9-CCA after:
serially being denied relief and ordered deported by an immigration judge and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), and then;
being denied the chance to reopen his case.
In addition to ineffective assistance of counsel, Flores challenged whether:
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