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Timestamp: 2018-07-23 13:38:40
Document Index: 109887659

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 5', '§ 1105', '§ 80', '§ 121', '§ 80', '§ 1001']

Bernard Hirsch, Petitioner, v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondent, 308 F.2d 562 (9th Cir. 1962) :: Justia
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Bernard Hirsch, Petitioner, v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondent, 308 F.2d 562 (9th Cir. 1962)
US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit - 308 F.2d 562 (9th Cir. 1962)
Petition to review an order of deportation, the matter having been transferred to this Court pursuant to § 5(b), Pub. L. 87-301, 75 Stat. 651. (See 8 U.S.C.A. § 1105a.)1
" [violation of] [t]he Act of Feb. 5, 1917, in that on or after May 1, 1917, he has been sentenced to imprisonment for a term of one year or more because of conviction in this country of a crime involving moral turpitude committed within five years after entry, to wit: Conspiracy to make false and fraudulent statements to a U. S. Government Agency Title 18 USC 80."2
Procedural due process requires no less, and such due process is required in such a hearing. (See Wong Yang Sung v. McGrath, 1950, 339 U.S. 33, 49-50, 70 S. Ct. 445, 94 L. Ed. 616; Hyun v. Landon, 9 Cir., 1955, 219 F.2d 404, 406, aff'd 1956, 350 U.S. 990, 76 S. Ct. 541, 100 L. Ed. 856.) We have frequently commented upon the severity of the remedy of deportation (see, e. g., Fong v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, 9 Cir., 1962, 308 F.2d 191), with the consequent requirement that prescribed procedures must be followed for the protection of the alien. (E. g., Bridges v. Wixon, 1945, 326 U.S. 135, 65 S. Ct. 1443, 89 L. Ed. 2103; De Souza v. Barber, 9 Cir., 1959, 263 F.2d 470, 475.) Surely being advised of the charges upon which the proceeding is based is fundamental to due process. (See De Jonge v. Oregon, 1937, 299 U.S. 353, 362, 57 S. Ct. 255, 81 L. Ed. 278; Thompson v. City of Louisville, 1960, 362 U.S. 199, 206, 80 S. Ct. 624, 4 L. Ed. 2d 654; Parr v. United States, 1960, 363 U.S. 370, 393-394, 80 S. Ct. 1171, 4 L. Ed. 2d 1277.)
Here, petitioner was first advised that the charge was that he had conspired to violate 18 U.S.C. § 80. Later, a second charge, violating the same statute (but minus the conspiracy), was added, in the manner required by the regulation. This was proper (see Galvan v. Press, 9 Cir., 1953, 201 F.2d 302, aff'd 1954, 347 U.S. 522, 74 S. Ct. 737, 98 L. Ed. 911). Petitioner was found by the hearing officer to be deportable under the second charge, but not the first. But he was never charged with the violation of 49 U.S.C.A. § 121, upon which the Board relies. The hearing officer properly disregarded the evidence as to this offense (Item 2, supra), as it did not in any way support the charge. The regulation then in effect required that he exclude both Item 2 and Item 4; they were irrelevant to the charges being heard.
Can it be sustained under the charge found valid by the hearing officer, violation of 18 U.S.C. § 80? A conviction of violation of that section does not necessarily show "a crime involving moral turpitude". Our most recent decision construing that section (now 18 U.S.C. § 1001) is Neely v. United States, 9 Cir., 1962, 300 F.2d 67, cert. den., 369 U.S. 864, 82 S. Ct. 1030, 8 L. Ed. 2d 84, where, in a prosecution for its violation, we upheld an instruction that "* * * it is not necessary that the Government prove that the defendant in fact had an evil intent. The word `wilful' means no more than that the forbidden act is done deliberately and with knowledge." A crime that does not necessarily involve evil intent, such as intent to defraud, is not necessarily a crime involving moral turpitude. It follows that the record of conviction, under Section 80 (Item 1) which contains no copy of the indictment and shows nothing as to the facts of the offense, does not support the order of deportation.