Mehboob v. Attorney General of the United States

How courts have described this case

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• stating that immigration statutes need not “encompass separate statutory or common law defenses that are available to a criminal defendant”
• stating that even if knowledge of the victim’s age is not an element of the crime, the perpetrator may still be “motivated by moral turpitude”
• affirming that moral turpitude inheres in the Pennsylvania offense of misdemeanor indecent assault, which involves sexual contact with a person under 16 years of age by a perpetrator who is at least 4 years older than the complainant
• observing “the consensus that moral turpitude inheres in strict liability sex offenses” involving minors or children (citing cases)
• involving an adult store owner who touched the breast of a 15-year-old female customer in his store
• affirming the determination that moral turpitude inheres in the Pennsylvania offense of misdemeanor indecent assault, consisting of sexual contact with a person under 16 years of age, where the perpetrator is at least 4 years older than the complainant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).