Jairo Bravo-Pedroza v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the Government’s possible exercise of prosecutorial discretion included appealing the Immigration Judge’s decision or filing a motion to reopen
• finding that the “basic requirement of res judicata” had been met where the alien had “a prior final judgment on the merits in a separate action”
• “Res judicata bars the government from bringing a second case based on evidence ... that it could have presented in the first case.”
• “Res judicata bars the government from bringing a second case based on evidence . . . that it could have pre- sented in the first case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).