Maria Huerta-Guevara v. John D. Ashcroft, U.S. Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a conviction for theft under A.R.S. § 13-1802 is not a generic theft offense because “services are not property”
• noting that “charging documents in combination with a signed plea agreement, jury instructions, guilty pleas, transcripts of a plea proceeding, and the judgment may suffice to document the elements of conviction” under the modified categorical approach
• rejecting Government’s argument that “Huerta waived her ability to challenge deportability before the BIA by conceding that she was removable”
• “The difficulty is that the con- viction’s label only goes so far; the conviction itself must meet the generic definition of theft no matter what the state calls it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).