The following excerpt is from Szonyi v. Barr, 942 F.3d 874 (Mem) (9th Cir. 2019):
to an important exceptionnamely, that an alien is deportable only if he or she is convicted of two crimes of moral turpitude "not arising out of a single scheme of criminal misconduct ." Id . (emphasis added). Thus, while the multiple convictions could now occur at a single trial, the proviso that they could not arise out of a single scheme of criminal misconduct meant that the amended statutory language retained, albeit in a narrower form, the prior statutes comparable focus on repeat criminals who had demonstrated "lawless propensities." Costello v. INS , 376 U.S. 120, 134, 84 S.Ct. 580, 11 L.Ed.2d 559 (1964) (White, J., dissenting).
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