FERREIRAS VELOZ v. GARLAND

No. 19-4111 August Term, 2020.

26 F.4th 129 (2022)

Andy Pabel FERREIRAS VELOZ, aka Andy Ferreiras, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Merrick B. GARLAND, United States Attorney General, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: February 17, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adam Amir & Noah A. Levine , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, New York, NY for Petitioner-Appellant.

Ethan P. Davis , Acting Assistant Attorney General — Civil Division ( Cindy Ferrier , Assistant Director, Sarai M. Aldana , Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Department of Justice, on the brief), Washington, DC for Respondent-Appellee.

Before: Calabresi and Sullivan, Circuit Judges.


The issue in this case is whether New York petit larceny, N.Y. Penal Law § 155.25, is categorically a "crime involving moral turpitude" (CIMT) such that a non-citizen twice convicted of that crime is deportable. See 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(2)(A)(ii). Answering that question requires us to define with certainty...

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