MENDOZA-RIVERA v. DEL GUERCIO

No. 813-57.

161 F.Supp. 473 (1958)

Manuel MENDOZA-RIVERA, Plaintiff, v. Albert DEL GUERCIO, as District Director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Los Angeles, California, Defendant.

United States District Court S. D. California, Central Division.

February 24, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harlin M. Fuller, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff.

Laughlin E. Waters, U. S. Atty., Richard A. Lavine and Norman R. Atkins, Asst. U. S. Attys., Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant.


WESTOVER, District Judge.

Plaintiff, Manuel Mendoza-Rivera, is a citizen of Mexico who has been in the United States since the age of two years. On January 10, 1952, in the Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the County of Los Angeles, he was convicted of possession of flowering tops and leaves of Indian Hemp, in violation of Section 11500 of the West's Ann. Health and Safety Code of the State of California, and was sentenced to imprisonment for...

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