Fajardo v. U.S. Attorney General

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that, when applying the modified categorical approach, courts may consider “the charging document, plea, verdict, and sentence”
• explaining that application of the categorical approach is proper for determining whether an alien was “convicted of . . . a crime involving moral turpitude” under 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(2)(A)(i)(l)
• relying on precedent from other contexts in which the categorical and modified categorical approaches apply in a case about whether a prior conviction qualified as a crime involving moral turpitude
• “[C]ourts have consistently held that Congress’s use of the term ‘conviction,’ . . . demonstrated its intent to require adjudicators to apply the categorical and modified categorical approach.”
• “Where words are employed in a statute which had at the time a well-known meaning at common law or in the law of this country they are presumed to have been used in that sense unless the context compels to the contrary.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).