ESQUIVEL-QUINTANA v. SESSIONS

No. 16-54.

137 S.Ct. 1562 (2017)

581 U.S. 385

Juan ESQUIVEL-QUINTANA, Petitioner v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS III, Attorney General.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 30, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey L. Fisher , Stanford, CA, for Petitioner.

Allon Kedem , Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Michael Carlin , Law Office of Michael Carlin PLLC, Ann Arbor, MI, Jeffrey L. Fisher , David T. Goldberg , Pamela S. Karlan , Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Jayashri Srikantiah , Immigrants' Rights Clinic, Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA, for Petitioner.

Ian Heath Gershengorn , Acting Solicitor General, Benjamin C. Mizer , Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Edwin S. Kneedler , Deputy Solicitor General, Allon Kedem , Assistant to the Solicitor General, Donald E. Keener , John W. Blakeley , Patrick J. Glen , Attorneys, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.


The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 66 Stat. 163, as amended, provides that "[a]ny alien who is convicted of an aggravated felony after admission" to the United States may be removed from the country by the Attorney General. 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(2)(A)(iii). One of the many crimes that...

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