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Juan BRISENO-GUTIERREZ, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 06-73918.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted Sept. 13, 2010.
    
    Filed Sept. 23, 2010.
    Robert L. Lewis, Esquire, Law Office of Robert L. Lewis, Oakland, CA, for Petitioner.
    
      Joanne E. Johnson, Esquire, Melissa Neiman-Kelting, Esquire, DOJ — U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division/Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Ronald E. Lefevre, Office of the District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
    Before: SILVERMAN, CALLAHAN, and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Juan Briseno-Gutierrez, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s removal order. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence whether a conviction was established by clear and convincing evidence, Nakamoto v. Ashcroft, 363 F.3d 874, 881-82 (9th Cir.2004), and review de novo questions of law and constitutional claims, Khan v. Holder, 584 F.3d 773, 776 (9th Cir.2009). We deny the petition for review.

The agency concluded that Briseno-Gu-tierrez is removable under 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a) (2) (A) (iii) based on his 1992 conviction for lewd or lascivious acts with a child in violation of California Penal Code § 288(c).

Briseno-Gutierrez’s contention that the record of conviction is inconsistent and ambiguous is not supported by the record. Substantial evidence supports the finding that the government established the exis-tenee of his conviction by clear and convincing evidence. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(3)(A)-(B).

Briseno-Gutierrez is ineligible for relief under former section 212(c), 8 U.S.C. § 1182(c) (repealed 1996), because his ground of removability lacks a statutory counterpart in a ground of inadmissibility. See 8 C.F.R. § 1212.3(f)(5); see also Abebe v. Mukasey, 554 F.3d 1203, 1207, 1208 n. 7 (9th Cir.2009) (en banc).

Briseno-Gutierrez’s retroactivity and equal protection challenges to the agency’s denial of section 212(c) relief are foreclosed by Abebe, 554 F.3d at 1207, 1208 n. 7.

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.