GARCIA-MARTINEZ v. BARR

No. 18-1797.

921 F.3d 674 (2019)

Juan Carlos GARCIA-MARTINEZ, Petitioner, v. William P. BARR, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 16, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Davorin John Odrcic , Attorney, ODRCIC LAW GROUP, LLC, Milwaukee, WI, for Petitioner.

OIL, Robert Dale Tennyson, Jr. , Attorneys, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before Wood, Chief Judge, and Sykes and Scudder, Circuit Judges.


The task of identifying a "crime involving moral turpitude" has vexed courts and agencies for decades, if not centuries. "Moral turpitude" tends to be defined very broadly. So, for example, one reads in Black's Law Dictionary (10th ed. 2014), that it is "[c]onduct that is contrary to justice, honesty, or morality; esp.,

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