SHARPE v. RILEY

No. CIV.A. 03-3052.

271 F.Supp.2d 631 (2003)

Clinton SHARPE, Plaintiff, v. William RILEY, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

July 3, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven A. Morley, Morley Surin & Griffin, Philadelphia, PA, for Clinton Sharpe, Petitioner.

Stephen J. Britt, U.S. Attorney's Office, Philadelphia, PA, for William Riley, Interim Director of the Philadelphia Office of the Bureau of Immigration Customs and Enforcement (BICE) of the Department of Homeland Security, Theodore Nordmark, Assistant District Director for Deportation and Detention of BICE in Philadelphia, Department of Homeland Security, Respondents.


MEMORANDUM

EDUARDO C. ROBRENO, District Judge.

Petitioner Clinton Sharpe, Jamaican national facing deportation in connection with his 1991 convictions for unlawful restraint and criminal contempt, filed this petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. The issues before the court are (1) whether unlawful restraint and criminal contempt are crimes involving moral turpitude, (2) whether applying retroactively the "stop time" rule contained...

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