Gary Steele v. J. Scott Blackman, Ins, District Director for Philadelphia District

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• holding that district courts retain the authority to issue writs of habeas corpus to detained aggravated felon aliens following the passage of IIRIRA
• holding that courts are “required to raise issues of standing sua sponte if such issues exist” (citation omitted)
• holding that, even in the absence of a challenge, courts are “required to raise issues of standing sua sponte if such issues exist”
• explaining that “the aggravated felony disability under the [INA] applies only if there has been a conviction of a felony”
• holding that to find that an alien was convicted of an aggravated felony “there must be a judicial determination beyond a reasonable doubt of every element of a felony or a constitutionally valid plea that encompasses each of those elements”
• finding that Petitioner's act of distributing 30 grams of marijuana without remuneration did not qualify as felony under federal law

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