Orumwense Lawrence v. Gonzales

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “the date of the criminal conduct is irrelevant” under St. Cyr’s retroactivity analysis
• holding that alien’s continued detention past presumptively reasonable post-order removal period was allowed where it “occurred pursuant to his own procuring of stays incident to his legal challenges to the removal order”
• rejecting that “availability of section 212(c) relief should be determined based upon when the conduct underlying his conviction took place”
• concluding petitioner’s prolonged post-removal detention “was necessary to bring about [his] removal” when it “occurred pursuant to his own procuring of stays incident to his legal challenges”
• concluding petitioner’s continued detention “occurred pursuant to his own procuring of stays incident to his legal challenges to the removal order; it is beyond dispute that this period of time was necessary to bring about [petitioner’s] removal . . .”
• declining to review an IAC claim for failure to comply with Lozada

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).