Aaron Solis-Tadeo v. Eric Holder, Jr.

MEMORANDUM

Aaron Manuel Solis-Tadeo petitions for review of a dismissal by the- Board of Immigration Appeals of his appeal from an order of removal based on a finding that he had been convicted within five years of his admission to the United States of a crime involving moral turpitude (“CIMT”) for which a sentence of one year or more may be imposed. We grant the petition and remand for further proceedings.

The decision of the Board incorrectly identified Solis’s conviction as being for assault with a deadly weapon. Solis was charged with that crime, but that is not the offense for which he was convicted. As the government acknowledged, he was convicted under another part of California Penal Code § 245(a)(1), for assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury. When the Board fails to identify correctly the elements of the crime for which the petitioner was convicted, its decision merits no deference. See Uppal v. Holder, 605 F.3d 712, 715 (9th Cir.2010) (“Because the BIA failed to identify the elements of § 268 correctly, its CIMT analysis ... is misdirected and so merits no deference from this Court.”); see also Hemandez-Cruz v. Holder, 651 F.3d 1094, 1106 (9th…