Cristoval Silva-Trevino v. Eric Holder, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that additional evidence outside the record of conviction may not be considered to resolve the question whether a crime involves moral turpitude
• concluding that petitioner had waived his argument by failing to adequately brief the issues
• stating that courts are to give effect to legislatures’ use of distinct terms
• pointing out that the categorical approach has been used in the immigration context for at least a century
• denying a request to supplement the record, finding that the argument was waived because no specific omission had been identified
• “It is an elementary canon of construction that when Congress uses different terms, ‘each term [is] to have a particular, nonsuperfluous meaning.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).