CASTENDET-LEWIS v. SESSIONS

No. 15-2484.

855 F.3d 253 (2017)

Daniel Jorge CASTENDET-LEWIS, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS III, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: April 25, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Michael Robert Huston , GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER LLP, Washington, D.C., for Petitioner. Manuel Alexander Palau , UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Respondent. ON BRIEF: Benjamin C. Mizer , Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Terri J. Scadron , Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Petition for review granted; vacated and remanded by published opinion. Judge King wrote the opinion, in which Chief Judge Gregory and Senior Judge Davis joined.


After pleading guilty to a statutory burglary offense in Virginia, Daniel Jorge Castendet-Lewis — a native of Panama admitted to the United States on a B-2 visitor visa in 2007 — was subjected to so-called "expedited removal proceedings." The Department of Homeland Security (the "DHS") initiated those proceedings...

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