Orange County Department of Social Services v. Roy T.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that aliens convicted of serious offenses may be required to show unusual or outstanding equities to satisfy the “threshold test for having a favorable exercise of discretion considered in his case”
• stating that “as the negative factors grow more serious, it becomes incumbent upon the alien to introduce!] additional offsetting favorable evidence, which in some cases may have to involve unusual or outstanding equities”
• discounting the alleged financial hardship to the respondent’s family because “his family have managed to support themselves while the respondent has been in prison”
• declining to grant Section 212(c) relief to alien with one drug conviction and one attempted robbery conviction, even when alien had a long period of residence in the United States, strong family ties to the United States, and a history of gainful employment
• “[S]uch a [heightened] showing may be mandated because of a single serious crime ... or because of a succession of criminal acts, which together establish a pattern of serious criminal misconduct.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).