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YAZDCHI v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE

No. 89-4078 Summary Calendar.

878 F.2d 166 (1989)

Ali YAZDCHI, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 25, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter D. Williamson, Houston, Tex., for petitioner.

Richard Thornburgh, Atty. Gen., Alice M. Smith, Richard Evans, Robert L. Bombough, Civ.Div., Washington, D.C., for respondent.

John B.Z. Caplinger, Dist. Director, I.N.S., New Orleans, La., and Ronald G. Parra, Director, Houston, Tex., for other interested parties.

Before GEE, WILLIAMS, and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Yazdchi, ordered to be deported because of convictions for two petty property crimes involving moral turpitude, appeals. His point for reversal is that these convictions were entered on pleas of nolo contendere, citing to us such authorities as United States v. Morrow, 537 F.2d 120 (5th Cir.1976). Morrow holds that a plea of nolo contendere, being a mere statement of unwillingness to contest a charge, is...

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