Armenia v. Carini

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• holding that an immigrant defendant is eligible for § 212(c) relief despite having been sentenced to a fifteen year prison term because he had not yet served five years of the sentence
• holding that an alien convicted of an aggravated felony and sentenced to at least 5 years in prison remains eligible for relief under section 212(c) of the Act until he has actually served 5 years or more
• noting that the statutory provision precluding eligibility for a section 212(c) waiver is triggered when 5 years’ imprison- ment has been served and the determination when to institute proceedings is within the sole discretion of the Service
• finding an immigrant eligible for § 212(c) relief despite having been sentenced to a fifteen year prison term because he had not yet served five years of his sentence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).