Javier Castrijon-Garcia v. Eric Holder, Jr.

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• holding that State assessments of a crimes’ moral turpitude are “not of great weight” (citation omitted)
• holding that State assessments of a crimes’ moral turpitude are “not of great weight” (citation omitted)
• concluding that simple kidnapping, California Penal Code § 207(a), does not categorically match the generic definition of a CIMT because it does not require the intent to cause injury or actual injury within its elements
• concluding simple kidnapping under California law is not categorically a crime of moral turpitude and remanding to the BIA for application of the modified categorical approach in the first instance
• concluding simple kidnapping under California law is not categorically a crime of moral turpitude and remanding to the BIA for application of the modified categorical approach in the first instance
• declining to defer to the BIA’s decision under Skidmore where the decision contained “no analysis at all” and “little reasoning”

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