OPINION OF THE COURT
FISHER, Circuit Judge.
In this case we are asked to decide when a vacated criminal conviction remains a "conviction," and when it does not, for purposes of determining an immigrant's eligibility for deportation. We conclude that the government may reasonably draw a distinction between convictions vacated for rehabilitative purposes and those vacated because of underlying defects in the criminal proceedings, and we establish a categorical...
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