GOUSSE v. ASHCROFT

Docket No. 02-4192.

339 F.3d 91 (2003)

Roger G. Gousse, Petitioner, v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 6, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Boyle, North Haven, CT (Michael C. Holley, Nashville, TN, of counsel), for Petitioner.

Megan L. Brackney, Assistant United States Attorney, for James B. Comey, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (Kathy S. Marks, Beth E. Goldman, Assistant United States Attorneys, of counsel), New York, NY, for Respondent.

Before: KEARSE, JACOBS, and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.


JACOBS, Circuit Judge.

Roger G. Gousse petitions for review of a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") ordering Gousse removed to Haiti on the ground that his Connecticut Alford plea to the offense classified as "sale of hallucinogen/narcotic" under Conn. Gen.Stat. § 21a-277(a) amounted to a conviction for "illicit trafficking in a controlled substance" under 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(B). Gousse argues that the record does not identify...

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