HOLDER v. SESSIONS

No. 15-1864.

848 F.3d 500 (2017)

Keith Desmond HOLDER, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS III, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

February 17, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randy Olen for petitioner.

Christina Greer , with whom Benjamin C. Mizer , Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Greg D. Mack , Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, and Wendy Benner-León , Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, were on brief, for respondent.

Before Thompson and Kayatta, Circuit Judges, Barbadoro, District Judge.


In May 1990, Petitioner Keith Desmond Holder (a lawful permanent resident) committed kidnapping for ransom, a felony under California law. Conviction for such a crime rendered him deportable. See 8 U.S.C. §§ 1101(a)(43)(F), (H), 1227(a)(2)(A)(iii). At the time Holder committed the crime, ...

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