Wei Cong Mei v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States

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• holding that the distinction between crimes that involve moral turpitude and those that do not corresponds “to the distinction between crimes that are malum in se and crimes that are malum prohibitum”
• holding that the distinction between crimes that involve moral turpitude and those that do not corresponds “to the distinction between crimes that are malum in se and crimes that are malum prohibitum”
• fleeing from police while going 21 or more miles per hour over the speed limit
• “[A] person who deliberately commits a serious crime is regarded as behaving immorally and not merely illegally”
• “[C]rimes deemed not to involve moral turpitude ... are either very minor crimes that are deliberate or graver crimes committed without a bad intent, most clearly strict-liability crimes”
• “Since the Board hasn’t done anything to particularize the meaning of ‘crime involving moral turpitude,’ giving Chevron deference to its determination of the meaning has no prac- tical significance.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).