Esquivel-Quintana v. Sessions

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• holding that courts may “look to state criminal codes for 8 additional evidence about the generic meaning of sexual abuse of a minor”
• collecting state criminal 8 codes in assessing the generic age of consent
• “[T]he generic federal definition of sexual abuse of a minor requires that the victim be younger than 16.”
• “We have no need to resolve whether the rule of lenity or Chevron receives priority in this case because the statute, read in context, unambiguously forecloses the Board's interpretation. Therefore, neither the rule of lenity nor Chevron applies.”
• “We begin, as always, with the text.”
• “We begin, as always, with the text.”

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• Esquivel-Quintana v. Sessions
  Sixth Circuit· 2017-08-29· cited 1×