Wolfgramm

MEMORANDUM **

Charlene Dawn Wolfgramm, a native and citizen of Tonga, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) sustaining the Department of Homeland Security’s appeal from an immigration judge’s decision granting her withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . Afridi v. Gonzales, 442 F.3d 1212, 1218 (9th Cir.2006). We grant the petition for review and remand for further proceedings.

Reviewing de novo, id. at 1215 , we conclude that the BIA erred in the manner in which it determined that Wolfgramm’s carjacking conviction under Cal.Penal Code § 215(a), for which she was sentenced to three years imprisonment, bars her from withholding of removal because it is for a “particularly serious crime.” See 8 U.S.C. § 1231 (b)(3)(B). The BIA’s decision did not sufficiently apply Matter of Freutescu, 18 I. & N. Dec. 244 (BIA 1982), and omitted case-specific discussion of the most important Freutescu factor: “whether the type and circumstances of the crime indicate that the alien will be a danger to the community.” Afridi, 442 F.3d at 1219 (quoting Frentescu, 18 I. & N. Dec. at 247 ); see also id. (noting that “there is…