Case Name: Jorge ESPINOZA-LUGO, aka Jorge Espinoza, aka Jorge Espinosa Lugo, aka Jorge Espinoza Lugo, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2016-03-31
Citations: 647 F. App'x 698
Docket Number: No. 12-72465
Parties: Jorge ESPINOZA-LUGO, aka Jorge Espinoza, aka Jorge Espinosa Lugo, aka Jorge Espinoza Lugo, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: THOMAS, Chief Judge, CHRISTEN, Circuit Judge, and SEABRIGHT, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 647
Pages: 698–698

Head Matter:
Jorge ESPINOZA-LUGO, aka Jorge Espinoza, aka Jorge Espinosa Lugo, aka Jorge Espinoza Lugo, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 12-72465.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued Nov. 21, 2014.
Submitted Dec. 30, 2014.
Filed March 31, 2016.
Andrew Jeffrey Fishkin, Esquire, Law Office of Andrew J. Fishkin, P.C., Bakersfield, CA, for Petitioner.
Oil, Rebecca Hoffberg Phillips, Esquire, Trial, Kathryn McKinney, DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel Ice, Office of the Chief Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
Before: THOMAS, Chief Judge, CHRISTEN, Circuit Judge, and SEABRIGHT, District Judge.
The Honorable J. Michael Seabright, District Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Jorge Espinoza-Lugo, native and citizen of Mexico, was convicted of accessory to a felony under California Penal Code § 32. An Immigration Judge ordered him removed to Mexico, determining his conviction to be an aggravated felony because it is an offense relating to obstruction of justice under 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(S). Applying the interpretation of "obstruction of justice" articulated in In re Valenzuela Gallardo, 25 I. & N. Dec. 838 (BIA 2012), the Board of Immigration Appeals dismissed Espinoza-Lugo's appeal. Espinoza-Lugo now petitions for review.
We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(D). In light of our decision in Valenzuela Gallardo v. Lynch, No. 12-72326, we remand to the Board for either application of the agency interpretation announced in In re Espinoza-Gonzalez, 22 I. & N. Dec. 889 (BIA 1999), or consideration of a new construction of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(S).
PETITION GRANTED IN PART, AND REMANDED.
SEABRIGHT, District Judge,
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9 th Cir. R. 36-3.
. The parties are familiar with the facts, so we do not recount them in detail.