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CESPEDES-AQUINO v. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF U.S.

No. 06-1550.

498 F.3d 221 (2007)

Cristian CESPEDES-AQUINO, Petitioner v. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF the UNITED STATES, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Filed August 21, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sandra L. Greene, Esquire, York, PA, Attorney for Petitioner.

Peter D. Keisler, Esquire, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division; James E. Grimes, Esquire, Senior Litigation Counsel; William C. Minick, Esquire, United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., Attorneys for Respondent.

Before: SLOVITER, WEIS and ROTH, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

WEIS, Circuit Judge.

Under section 212(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1182(c), the Attorney General had discretion to provide leniency to certain permanent legal residents charged with deportable offenses. One treatise writer has described that section as one of the most "complex and frequently litigated sections of the immigration law." 6 Charles Gordon et al., Immigration Law and Procedure § 74.04...

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