United States v. Lionel Jean-Baptiste

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• holding that engaging in a narcotics-distribution conspiracy prior to being naturalized, and being convicted post- naturalization, are sufficient grounds for denaturalization
• holding in a denaturalization case that the defendant “was precluded from challenging his conviction or his knowledge of having committed the crime”
• explaining that collateral estoppel bars a criminal defendant from relitigating issues necessarily decided in his criminal trial
• explaining that “extenuating circumstances ... must pertain to the reasons showing lack of good moral character, including acts negating good character, not to the consequences of these matters, including the consequence of denaturalization”
• finding that extenuating circumstances relating to the hardship of prison conditions in foreign jail and impact on his family do not relate to the criminal offense at issue and fail to show extenuating circumstances.
• affirming that a naturalized citizen who committed a drug offense prior to his nat- uralization oath but was not indicted, arrested, or convicted until after his naturalization failed to demonstrate good moral character and was subject to denaturalization

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).