Rafael Lara-Chacon v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General

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• holding that conviction under a statute that punished activities relating to “racketeering proceeds,” which included but was not limited to proceeds from “prohibited drugs,” was not an offense “relating to a controlled substance”
• noting that “[c]harging papers alone are never sufficient” to establish the' elements of conviction (internal quotation marks omitted)
• noting that “[c]harging papers alone are never sufficient” to establish the elements of conviction (internal quotation marks omitted)
• noting that where a defendant enters a guilty plea, “charging papers alone are never sufficient” to establish the elements of conviction (quoting United States v. Corona- Sanchez, 291 F.3d 1201, 1211 (9th Cir. 2002))
• “Johnson applies where an immigrant explicitly pleads guilty to (or the jury finds) a violation of the specific statutory provision that obviously relates to drugs.”

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