The following excerpt is from Burr v. Immigration & Naturalization Service, 350 F.2d 87 (9th Cir. 1965):
Moreover, under the same reasoning adopted by this court in passing upon the effect of a state's expungement of conviction, we believe 1251(a) (4), a federal statute, was intended to have a uniform application. (See Kelly v. Immigration & Naturalization Service, supra.) The effect of this federal statute will not be made to depend upon the niceties and nuances of a state procedure.
IV. "PRISON OR CORRECTIVE INSTITUTION" MEANS "PRISON" AS OPPOSED TO "COUNTY JAIL."
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