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LOPEZ-VALENCIA v. LYNCH

No. 12-73210.

798 F.3d 863 (2015)

Roberto LOPEZ-VALENCIA, aka Adelado Cortez, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 17, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeremy Sanders (argued) and Kelly Schwartz (argued), Supervised Law Students under the supervision of Kari E. Hong , Boston College Law School, Ninth Circuit Appellate Project, Newton, MA, for Petitioner.

Manning Evans (argued) and Joseph D. Hardy , United States Department of Justice Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C.; Joyce R. Branda , Acting Assistant Attorney General, and Blair T. O'Connor , Assistant Director, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Before: ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, M. MARGARET McKEOWN, and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges.

OPINION

On its face, the task of figuring out whether a prior offense qualifies as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act or an "aggravated felony" under immigration law would seem to be a straightforward undertaking. After all, these categories conjure up the notion of certain kinds of crimes. In...

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