Hamdan v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

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• holding that all possible crimes encompassed within a statutory provision must necessarily involve moral turpitude in order to find that a conviction under that statute is for a crime involving moral turpitude
• granting the petition for review and remanding for further examination of the record of conviction because (1) the Louisiana kidnapping statute under which Hamdan was convicted is divided into discrete subsections, and (2
• describing the second part of its two-prong standard of review, articulated in Animashaun v. INS, 990 F.2d 234, 237 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 510 U.S. 995 (1993), as applying the standard that an agency inter- pretation must be reasonable to be upheld
• granting the petition for While the Government does not review and remanding for further ask us specifically to abandon the examination of the record of conviction categorical approach in cases such as ours because (1) the Louisiana kidnapping (i.e., when it counsels against deportation
• \Among the tests to determine if a crime involves moral turpitude is whether the act is accompanied by a vicious motive or a corrupt mind.\
• “Among the tests to determine if a crime involves moral turpitude is whether the act is accompanied by a vicious motive or a corrupt mind.”

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