TAVERAS-LOPEZ v. RENO

No. Civ.A. 3:CV-00-0236.

127 F.Supp.2d 598 (2000)

Yohani Antonio TAVERAS-LOPEZ, Petitioner, v. Janet RENO, Attorney General; Doris Meissner, INS Commissioner; and M. Francis Holmes, INS Director Philadelphia District, Respondents.

United States District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania.

December 8, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Yohani Antonio Taveras-Lopez, pro se.

J. Justin Blewitt, Assist. U.S. Atty., Scranton, PA, for respondents.


MEMORANDUM

VANASKIE, Chief Judge.

This is a habeas corpus proceeding under 28 U.S.C. § 2241. At issue is the validity of an order of an Immigration Judge directing the removal of petitioner Yohani Antonio Taveras-Lopez from the United States based upon his 1998 plea of guilty to a cocaine trafficking charge. Taveras-Lopez, a long-term lawful permanent resident of the United States, claims that the underlying conviction is invalid because he was...

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