holding that giving false identification to a peace officer was not a CIMT if the only “benefit” to giving the false statement was to impede law enforcement and not to obtain something tangible
How later courts described this case
- holding that giving false identification to a peace officer was not a CIMT if the only “benefit” to giving the false statement was to impede law enforcement and not to obtain something tangible
- holding that giving false identification to a peace officer is not a CIMT because the only “benefit” the individual obtains is to impede law enforcement and not to obtain something tangible
- finding that it was not error for the Immigration Judge to reject the applicant’s plausible account of the circumstances based on contrary evidence
- collecting Ninth Circuit cases finding other government obstruction offenses not to be crimes involving moral turpitude
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
PREGERSON, Circuit Judge,
specially concurring:
I concur with the holding that a violation of California Penal Code § 148.9(a) is not a crime of moral turpitude.