Does the Attorney General have the authority to designate a particularly serious crime as a crime?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Gomez-Sanchez v. Sessions, 892 F.3d 985 (9th Cir. 2018):
8 U.S.C. 1231(b)(3)(B)(iv). "[B]ecause the term particularly serious crime is not otherwise defined by statute, the Attorney General may also designate offenses as particularly serious crimes through case-by-case adjudication .... " See AvendanoHernandez v. Lynch , 800 F.3d 1072, 1077 (9th Cir. 2015) (quoting Delgado v. Holder , 648 F.3d 1095, 1098 (9th Cir. 2011) (en banc) ).
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