Victor Saravia-Paguada v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General

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• reasoning that reliance in the form of criminal conduct is “per se unreasonable”
• rejecting the petitioner’s argument that this court’s “empha- sis on an alien’s reasonable reliance on a prior law is inconsis- tent with Supreme Court precedent”
• no reasonable reliance in committing the crime for which petitioner was removable
• the past relevant conduct for the retroactivity analysis is the alien’s decision whether to enter a guilty plea or to proceed to trial, and not the commission of the underlying criminal conduct

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