Manuel Joaquin Oliveira Ferreira v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General

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• holding that where the petitioner challenged the characteriza- tion of his conviction as an aggravated felony and faced ineli- gibility to seek readmission to the United States for twenty years, the case was not mooted by his deportation
• noting that, “[i]n the immigration context, . . . the need for national uniformity is paramount”
• holding that a wobbler was not an aggravated felony under 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a) (43)(B) because the state court had imposed a sentence of imprisonment in the county jail, and thus the conviction was a misdemeanor under section 17(b)(1) of the California Penal Code
• holding a petitioner’s challenge to the characterization of his conviction as an aggravated 8 felony was not mooted by his deportation because Petitioner faced a lifetime bar to admission
• noting that the need for national uniformity is “paramount” in the immigration context
• noting that the need for national uniformity is “paramount” in the immigration context

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