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GRAGEDA v. U.S. I.N.S.

No. 92-70322.

12 F.3d 919 (1993)

Alvaro Palafox GRAGEDA, Petitioner, v. U.S. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided December 28, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Colin M. Warnes, San Jose, CA, for petitioner.

Alice M. King, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for respondent.

Before: KOZINSKI and O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judges, and KELLEHER, District Judge.

O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:

We must decide whether spousal abuse is a crime of moral turpitude upon the basis of which an alien can be deported.

I

Petitioner Alvaro Palafox Grageda seeks reversal of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") affirmance of the Immigration Judge's ("IJ") deportation order under section 241(a)(4) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1251(a)(4), which allows for deportation of an alien who has committed...

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