Mendez v. Mukasey

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• reinforcing proposition that intent of fraud, not materiality of statement, is key to CIMT determination
• “Whether a crime is one involving moral turpitude depends on the offender’s evil intent or corruption of the mind.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “Whether a crime is one involving moral turpitude depends on the offender’s evil intent or corruption of the mind.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[G]enerally, where intent is not an 16 element of a crime, that crime is not one involving moral turpitude.”
• “[T]he courts of appeals have interpreted ‘moral turpitude’ as including a wide variety of crimes that involve some fraud or deceit.”
• “[W]e owe no deference to the BIA’s construction of state criminal 14 statutes.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).