GUZMAN v. ATTORNEY GENERAL U.S.

No. 13-3196.

770 F.3d 1077 (2014)

Cristian Paniagua GUZMAN, Petitioner v. ATTORNEY GENERAL UNITED STATES of America, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Opinion filed: November 3, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David G. Katona, Esquire , (argued), Katona & Mir, LLP, New York, NY, Counsel for Petitioner.

Eric H. Holder, Jr. , Attorney General of the United States, Stuart F. Delery, Esquire , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Jennifer P. Levings, Esquire , Senior Litigation Counsel, Tim Ramnitz, Esquire , (argued), Trial Attorney, Thomas W. Hussey, Esquire , Trial Attorney, Jason Wisecup, Esquire , Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Counsel for Respondent.

Before RENDELL, GREENAWAY and KRAUSE, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

RENDELL, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner Cristian Guzman appeals from a ruling by the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") that the so-called "stop-time rule," as enacted by the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, Pub.L. No. 104-208, div. C., 110 Stat. 3009 (1996) ("IIRIRA") (effective April 1, 1997), was not impermissibly retroactive as applied to his 1995 criminal offense. The BIA rejected Petitioner's argument that the...

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