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152024P.pdf 04/22/2016 Gerardo Perez Alonzo v. Loretta E. Lynch
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 15-2024
Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Bye and Benton, Circuit Judges]
Petition for Review - Immigration. All four of petitioner's convictions
under Iowa Code Section 708.2A, including his third and fourth convictions
under Section 708.2A(4)'s recidivist provision, are dependent on the
definition of assault in Section 708.1(2); because that section is
divisible into turpitudinous and non-turpitudinous acts, petitioner's
domestic abuse convictions do not categorically constitute crimes
involving moral turpitude, and the BIA erred in declining to review
petitioner's record of convictions, under the modified categorical
approach, to determine whether he has been convicted under a subsection
that describes a crime involving moral turpitude; the matter must,
therefore, be remanded to the BIA to permit it to consider the issue in
the first instance.