TORRES DE LA CRUZ v. MAURER

No. 06-9515.

483 F.3d 1013 (2007)

Miguel Angel TORRES DE LA CRUZ, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Douglas MAURER, District Director, United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, Denver, Colorado, and Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

April 3, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Submitted on the Briefs:**

Jim Salvator, Lafayette, CO, for Petitioner-Appellant.

William J. Leone, United States Attorney, and Mark S. Pestal, Assistant United States Attorney, for Respondents-Appellees.

Before TACHA, Chief Judge, HARTZ, and TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judges.


TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge.

Miguel Angel Torres de la Cruz (Torres), a native and citizen of Mexico, was admitted into the United States as a lawful permanent resident on October 30, 1992. After an August 6, 1999 state court conviction in Utah for possession of a controlled substance (cocaine), the then-Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)1 initiated removal proceedings against him in December 1999. He was found to have committed...

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