Case Name: Francisco Javier LUNA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2011-01-12
Citations: 408 F. App'x 99
Docket Number: No. 09-72002
Parties: Francisco Javier LUNA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: GOODWIN, WALLACE, and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 408
Pages: 99–100

Head Matter:
Francisco Javier LUNA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 09-72002.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Dec. 14, 2010.
Filed Jan. 12, 2011.
Francisco Javier Luna, Tucson, AZ, pro se.
Susan Houser, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division/Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Justin Robert Markel, 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: GOODWIN, WALLACE, and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Francisco Javier Luna, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge's removal order. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review de novo questions of law, Mielewczyk v. Holder, 575 F.3d 992, 994 (9th Cir.2009), and we grant the petition for review.
The statute of conviction, proscribes, among other offenses, an "offer to . transfer marijuana." See Ariz. Rev. Stats. § 13-3405(A)(4). It therefore includes a solicitation offense, see Mielewczyk, 575 F.3d at 998 n. 4, and is not categorically a drug trafficking offense, see United States v. Rivera-Sanchez, 247 F.3d 905, 909 (9th Cir.2001) (en banc), superseded on other grounds by U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2 cmt. n. 4 (2002), as recognized in Guerrero-Silva v. Holder, 599 F.3d 1090, 1092-93 (9th Cir.2010). The agency therefore erred insofar as it concluded that a conviction under Ariz. Rev. Stats. § 13-3405 is categorically an aggravated felony drug trafficking crime under 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(B).
Luna adequately exhausted this issue before the BIA and presented it on appeal, see Vizcarra-Ayala v. Mukasey, 514 F.3d 870, 873-74 (9th Cir.2008); Abassi v. INS, 305 F.3d 1028, 1032 (9th Cir.2002); see also Huerta-Guevara v. Ashcroft, 321 F.3d 883, 886 (9th Cir.2003).
Because it is unclear whether the agency applied the modified categorical approach, we remand for further proceedings. See INS v. Ventura, 537 U.S. 12, 16, 123 S.Ct. 353, 154 L.Ed.2d 272 (2002). In light of our disposition, we do not reach Luna's remaining contentions.
PETITION FOR REVIEW GRANTED; REMANDED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.