DERIS
Citations
- 20 I. & N. Dec. 5
Syllabus
DERIS, 20 I&N Dec. 5 (BIA 1989) ID 3102 (PDF) For immigration purposes,the Maryland first offender statute, Article 27, section 292 of the AnnotatedCode of Maryland, which offers favorable treatment to anyone committinghis first drug violation regardless of the nature and severity of theoffense, is not a counterpart to the federal first offender statute, whichis limited in its application to simple possession of a controlled substancehence, the respondent in deportation proceedings may properly be founddeportable for having been convicted by a Maryland state court of a drugviolation.
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- license plate check of vehicle showed it was stolen, but stop of vehicle twenty minutes later invalidated when investigation showed police had failed to update records that car had been recovered and returned to owner; evidence suppressed
- license plate check of vehicle showed it was stolen, but stop of vehicle twenty minutes later invalidated when investigation showed police had failed to update records that car had been recovered and returned to owner; evidence suppressed
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