Pasqual Antonio-Martinez v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• applying fugitive disentitlement doctrine where immigrant had lost contact with counsel and the agency and all efforts to contact him had failed for over two years
• approving disentitlement where an alien \disregard[ed his] legal and common-sense obligation to stay in touch while [his] lawyers appeal an outstanding deportation order\
• applying fugitive disentitlement doctrine where immigrant had lost contact with counsel and the agency and all efforts to contact him had failed for over two years
• stating the general rule that ignorance of the law is not an excuse
• “As a general rule, ignorance of the law is no excuse . . . .”
• petitioner had been missing and out of touch with his attorney for two years

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).