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CARTER v. I.N.S.

No. 95-1840.

90 F.3d 14 (1996)

Zakia CARTER, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

July 30, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph S. Callahan, on brief, Fall River, MA, for petitioner.

Frank W. Hunger, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Philemina McNeill Jones, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, on brief, Washington, DC, for respondent.

Before SELYA and BOUDIN, Circuit Judges, and McAULIFFE, District Judge.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

Invoking the newly enacted "battered spouse" provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (I & N Act), 8 U.S.C. § 1154(a)(1)(A)(iii) (1994), petitioner Zakia Carter seeks judicial review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (the Board) denying her motion to reopen deportation proceedings. Discerning no cognizable error, we decline to grant the petition.

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Carter, a native and citizen of Morocco, was convicted...

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