ROSA PENA v. SESSIONS

No. 17-1310.

882 F.3d 284 (2018)

Domingo Antonio ROSA PENA, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS, III, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

February 14, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Todd C. Pamerleau , with whom Jeffrey B. Rubin and Rubin Pomerleau P.C. were on brief, for petitioner. Margot L. Carter , Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, with whom Chad A. Readler , Acting Assistant Attorney General, and Terri J. Scadron , Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, were on brief, for respondent.

Before Howard, Chief Judge, Lynch and Thompson, Circuit Judges.


This petition for review presents the question of whether the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") decision is sustainable on the reasoning it used to conclude that a violation of Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 266, § 2 ("Massachusetts Arson") is categorically a crime involving moral turpitude ("CIMT") under the Immigration and...

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