VALERIO-RAMIREZ v. SESSIONS

Nos. 16-2272, 17-1402.

882 F.3d 289 (2018)

Lizbeth Patricia VALERIO-RAMIREZ, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS, III, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

February 15, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary P. Holper , Washington, DC, and Boston College Legal Services LAB Immigration Clinic for petitioner.

John Willshire Carrera and Philip L. Torrey on brief for Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program and Immigrant Defense Project, amici curiae.

Margaret Kuehne Taylor , Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, with whom Chad A. Readler , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Derek C. Julius , Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, were on brief, for respondent.

Before Lynch, Circuit Judge, Souter, Associate Justice, and Selya, Circuit Judge.


This case involves what constitutes a "particularly serious crime," the commission of which renders a petitioner ineligible for withholding of deportation or removal.

The case is before this court for the second time. An Immigration Judge ("IJ") determined that Lizbeth Valerio-Ramirez's ("Valerio") conviction for aggravated...

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