BOROKINNI v. U.S. I.N.S.

No. 91-1246.

974 F.2d 442 (1992)

Ibrahim Dende BOROKINNI, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 19, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillip Williams, argued (Michael Maggio, on brief), Maggio & Kattar, Washington, D.C., for petitioner.

Donald Anthony Couvillon, Civ. Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., argued (Stuart M. Gerson, Asst. Atty. Gen. and Richard M. Evans, Asst. Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civ. Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, on brief), for respondent.

Before ERVIN, Chief Judge, and PHILLIPS and MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

ERVIN, Chief Judge:

In 1983, Ibrahim Borokinni, an alien who had been granted permanent resident status the year before, was convicted of importation of a controlled substance and intent to distribute a controlled substance, after airport security officers caught him transporting 440 grams of heroin into the country. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) began deportation proceedings. In 1987, an INS judge ruled that Borokinni was not...

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