Mikhail Bovkun v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States

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• noting that we must “determine what is the term of imprisonment actually imposed” and concluding that “a sentence with both a minimum and a maximum term is treated comparably with a functionally equivalent sentence with only a maximum term”
• looking to Pennsylvania law rather than BIA precedent in finding that a sentence of eleven-to-twenty-three months qualified as a term of imprisonment of \at least one year\
• interpreting a similar jurisdiction- stripping provision applicable to aliens who have been convicted of the commission of an aggravated felony
• looking to Pennsylvania law rather than BIA precedent in finding that a sentence of eleven-to-twenty-three months qualified as a term of imprisonment of “at least one year”
• conviction under statute making it a crime to threaten “to commit any crime of violence” is crime of violence under § 16(a)

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