# Blanco v. Mukasey

> Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · March 3, 2008 · 518 F.3d 714

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9621486

## Case

- **Full name:** Mario Jorge BLANCO, Petitioner, v. Michael B. MUKASEY, Attorney General, Respondent
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- **Decided:** March 3, 2008
- **Citations:** 518 F.3d 714; 2008 WL 553869
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Pregerson
- **Judges:** Pregerson, Hawkins, Fisher
- **Cited by:** 71 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- 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
- holding that providing false identification to a police officer is not a crime involving moral turpitude

## Opinion text

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.

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