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LUJAN-ARMENDARIZ v. I.N.S.

Nos. 96-70431, 99-70359.

222 F.3d 728 (2000)

Hector Tito LUJAN-ARMENDARIZ, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent. Mauro Roldan-Santoyo, Petitioner, v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 1, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dorothea P. Kraeger, Phoenix, Arizona, for petitioner/appellant Hector Tito Lujan-Armendariz; Katherine Brady, Immigrant Legal Resource Center, Marc Van Der Hout, Donald Ungar, and Robert Jobe, San Francisco, California, for petitioner/appellant Mauro Roldan-Santoyo.

David W. Ogden, Acting Assistant Attorney General; Mark C. Walters, Assistant Director; and Margaret Perry, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for respondent/appellee.

Before: POLITZ, REINHARDT, and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.

REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:

This case involves two long-time residents found guilty of first time simple possession, and attempted simple possession, of narcotics, respectively. The INS seeks to remove them from the country, even though in both cases state courts have held that the petitioners are no longer "convicted" under state law, because both petitioners have received the benefit of state rehabilitative statutes. We hold that the petitioners before us do not presently...

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