SAFARYAN v. BARR

No. 16-74039.

975 F.3d 976 (2020)

Eduard SAFARYAN, Petitioner, v. William P. BARR, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 17, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlos R. Barrios (argued), Los Angeles, California; Areg Kazaryan , Glendale, California; for Petitioner.

Robert D. Tennyson, Jr. , Ph.D. (argued), Trial Attorney; Justin Markel , Senior Litigation Counsel; Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Respondent.

Before: Carlos T. Bea, Daniel P. Collins, and Daniel A. Bress, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

This case requires us to decide whether California Penal Code § 245(a)(1), which proscribes certain aggravated forms of assault, is categorically a "crime involving moral turpitude" for purposes of the immigration laws. We were presented with precisely that issue in Ceron v. Holder,

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