Abdul Itani v. U.S. Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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• holding that misprision of a felony is a crime involving moral turpitude because it “necessarily involves an affirmative act of concealment or participation in a felony, behavior that runs contrary to accepted societal duties and involves dishonest or fraudulent activity”
• looking at how the federal courts had defined the statute to determine whether the felony was a crime of moral turpitude
• “Whether a crime involves the depravity or fraud necessary to be one of moral turpitude depends upon the inherent nature of the offense, as defined in the relevant statute, rather than the circumstances surrounding a defendant’s particular conduct.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).