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TORRES-VALDIVIAS v. HOLDER

No. 11-70532.

766 F.3d 1106 (2014)

Jose Guadalupe TORRES-VALDIVIAS, aka Guadalupe Torres, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 5, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lamar Peckham , Santa Rosa, CA, for Petitioner.

Stuart F. Delery , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Mary Jane Candaux , Assistant Director, Kiley L. Kane , Senior Litigation Counsel, and Gary J. Newkirk (argued), Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Before: BARRY G. SILVERMAN and RICHARD R. CLIFTON, Circuit Judges, and DERRICK KAHALA WATSON, District Judge.

OPINION

CLIFTON, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner Jose Guadalupe Torres-Valdivias petitions for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") decision upholding a final order of removal against him. In deciding this case, we consider the scope of the Attorney General's decision in Matter of Jean, 23 I. & N. Dec. 373 (Att'y Gen.2002), which established a heightened standard that aliens convicted of violent or dangerous crimes must satisfy to be granted...

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