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COELHO v. SESSIONS

No. 16-2220.

864 F.3d 56 (2017)

Joao Lopes COELHO, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS III, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

July 24, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Todd Pomerleau , with whom Jeffrey B. Rubin and Rubin Pomerleau P.C., Boston, MA, were on brief, for petitioner.

Andrew N. O'Malley , with whom Lindsay M. Murphy , Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Chad A. Readler , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Cindy S. Ferrier , Assistant Director, were on brief, for respondent.

Emma Winger , Immigration Impact Unit, Committee for Public Counsel Services, on brief for the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services Immigration Impact Unit, the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, and the Immigrant Defense Project, amici curiae.

Before Torruella, Lynch, and Kayatta, Circuit Judges.

This appeal presents the question of whether the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") committed reversible error when it held that the Massachusetts crime of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon ("ABDW"), in violation of Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 265, § 15A(b), is categorically a crime involving moral turpitude ("CIMT...

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