Vieira García v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• concluding \it is entirely rational for the BIA to rely on the law of the convicting state to determine whether a juvenile has been convicted as an adult.\
• concluding “it is entirely rational for the BIA to rely on the law of the convicting state to determine whether a juvenile has been convicted as an adult.”
• explaining that rational- basis review applies to distinctions based on foreign national status
• “Once adjudicated by the state court, as 39 either a juvenile or an adult, we are bound by that determination.”
• “Neither we nor the BIA have jurisdiction to determine how a state court should adjudicate its defendants. Once adjudicated by the state court, as either a juvenile or an adult, we are bound by that determination.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).