Maghsoudi v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• noting that, under Massachusetts law, “[l]ack of consent [i]s an element of indecent assault on a person fourteen or older”
• asserting jurisdiction to determine whether alien's criminal convictions precluded review of his immigration proceedings under IIRIRA transition rule § 309(c)(4)(G)
• according\due deference\ to the BIA's interpretation of whether a crime involved \moral turpitude\ within the meaning of 8 U.S.C. S 1227(a)(2)(A)(i)
• “The inherent nature of the crime or conviction, as defined in the criminal statute, is relevant in this determination; the particular circumstances of [the] acts and convictions are not.”
• “Given that lack of consent was an element of the crime to which Maghsoudi pleaded guilty, a determination that the crime involved moral turpitude is consistent with earlier Board determinations.”
• “Given that lack of consent was an element of the crime to which Maghsoudi pleaded guilty, a determination that the 7 crime involved moral turpitude is consistent with earlier Board determinations.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).