Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
EMERSON PIMENTEL,
Petitioner,
v.
IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE,
Respondent.
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ON PETITION FOR REVIEW OF AN ORDER
OF THE BOARD OF IMMIGRATION APPEALS
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Before
Breyer, Chief Judge,
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Torruella and Selya,
Circuit Judges.
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Per Curiam.
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might
deportation.
grant
We
the INS's
deportation, and
apply
for
summarily
motion to
discretionary
affirm the
relief
May 6,
dissolve the
1993 order,
automatic
from
stay of
hold appellate
proceedings in abeyance.
I
Petitioner
appear
at
was
ordered
deported
deportation hearing
or
after
present
he failed
to
any defense.
Petitioner promptly
the deportation
proceedings so
moved to reopen
from
deportation.
apply
for discretionary
relief
Petitioner's
motion to reopen,
INS correspondence
had been
sent to an
address at
not
material
been
accompanied
as required
by
by
8
affidavits
C.F.R.
In
motion to reopen
and
3.8(a)
evidentiary
and that
the
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Petitioner, represented
to
reopen
once again,
at the
address to
this
by new counsel,
time
promptly moved
filing affidavits.
correspondence had
He
not
been
sent;
he
simply
had
deportation hearing.
not
received
any
notice
of
the
that she had the only key to the residence's mailbox and she,
too,
had not
received notice
Petitioner argued he
of
the deportation
should not be
hearing.
first
counsel's failings.
Concluding
that petitioner
had
not complied
with the
1988),
ineffective
for
seeking
assistance
reopening based
of
counsel,
on
the
a
BIA
claim
of
denied
appeal
from
deportation
"high standard"
for motions
order
had
been
summarily
reopening based
on
BIA
concluded
petitioner had
not
complied
with his
he had notified
with
first
whether he
BIA
did
not
abuse
its
discretion
in
denying
sketchy in
counsel.
describing his
arrangement with
first
week of receiving
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he had
for this
petitioner
case"; counsel
"was under
enter an appearance.
the
After
had
said not
to worry;
impression" that
counsel
and
would
sufficiently
Petitioner
case,"
counsel
detailed
asserted that
file
his
that petitioner
agreement
counsel had
been
an appearance.
with
had
counsel.
paid for
"this
impression" that
Petitioner
failed to
deportation proceedings.
Second, petitioner
failed timely
his motion
have
notified counsel
copy
of the letter,
BIA's
May 6,
letter's omission,
copy until
to reopen,
but failed to
put
petitioner
over three
that he
by letter and
1993 order
to show
had
In a
petitioner claimed
purported to
do so.
attach a
petitioner on
notice of
apparently did
to
not submit
the filing
the
a
of his
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third
motion to reopen.
Such piecemeal
presentation, with
an unwarrantable delay of
deportation, is
disciplinary proceedings
that
"Supreme
Court
confidentiality of
saying whether
against his
Rule
No.
counsel.
4221,
He
regarding
a complaint had
been filed.
claimed
the
him from
Petitioner did
not attach a copy of the rule from which the BIA could make a
determination
whether
petitioner's
interpretation
was
warranted.1
In
view of
the motion's
deficiencies,
the BIA
acted
that we
filed through
of
1105a's
proceedings
in
deportation
pending
hold appellate
abeyance
a third
would
counsel
automatic
stay,
be
determination
proceedings in
in August
holding
tantamount
of
1993.
appellate
to
staying
petitioner's
third
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1. Petitioner has apparently abandoned his interpretation of
the Rhode Island rule, for in his third motion to reopen, he
indicates he filed a complaint against first counsel in late
July, almost two months after the BIA denied the second
motion to reopen.
The disciplinary complaint is very
sketchy.
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considerations, see
Berroteran-Melendez v. I.N.S.,
955 F.2d
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1251,
1255 (9th
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Cir.
1992), we
decline
to stay
judicial
proceedings.
requested a stay
of deportation
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