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VELASCO-TIJERO v. LYNCH

No. 14-3803.

796 F.3d 617 (2015)

Arturo VELASCO-TIJERO, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: August 6, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Douglas S. Weigle , Bartlett & Weigle Co., L.P.A., Cincinnati, Ohio, for Petitioner. Jennifer A. Singer , United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent. ON BRIEF: Mauricio A. Herrera , Legal Center of NWA, Lowell, Arkansas, for Petitioner. Laura Halliday Hickein , United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Before: GUY, GIBBONS, and ROGERS, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

Petitioner is an undocumented alien. In 1995, an Arkansas court convicted him, on a guilty plea, of shoplifting. Under the law then in effect, petitioner's conviction and the resulting sentence did not foreclose him from seeking suspension of deportation in the event the Government sought to deport him. In...

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