Joaquin Sinotes-Cruz v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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• holding that section 240(c)(3)(C) operates as a safe harbor in that “it establishes the maximum standard for authentication of electronically transmitted records of conviction, but it does not establish a minimum standard”
• holding that stop-time rule could not be applied retroactively to pre-IIRIRA crime that did not render alien ineligible for discretionary relief before IIRIRA but did render him so after IIRIRA’s reclassification of the crime
• admitting copies of criminal convictions that were stamped by an immigration agent and appeared to be official state-court records even where certification by a state official was lacking
• “When the BIA conducts an independent review of the IJ’s findings we review the BIA’s decision and not that of the IJ.”
• “[P]roper authentication requires some sort of proof that the document is what it purports to be.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).