Griffiths v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

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• concluding that such filing procedures do constitute convictions after enactment of the IIRIRA
• explaining that it could be \possible\ to find that state judge effectively imposed a \time-served\ sentence because judge determined that a \past punishment\ for the underlying offense conduct was sufficient \punishment for the present charge\
• \[T]he B[oard] assessed whether the guilty-filed disposition under Massachusetts law fell within the category demarcated by the [Act's] second [conviction] prong.\
• “Where a reviewing court cannot sustain an agency decision because No. 02-3481 Csekinek v. INS Page 10 it has failed to offer a legally sufficient basis for that decision, the appropriate remedy is remand to the agency for further consideration.”
• reserving the question but citing Moosa approvingly

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