Case Name: Jose Manuel PEREZ HUERTA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-04-12
Citations: 373 F. App'x 811
Docket Number: No. 07-73411
Parties: Jose Manuel PEREZ HUERTA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: RYMER, McKEOWN and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 373
Pages: 811–812

Head Matter:
Jose Manuel PEREZ HUERTA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 07-73411.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted April 5, 2010.
Filed April 12, 2010.
Arnold S. Jaffe, Esquire, Law office of Arnold S. Jaffe, Santa Barbara, CA, for Petitioner.
OIL, Holly Smith, Esquire, Trial, Linda S. Wendtland, Esquire, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, CAC-District Counsel, Esquire Office of the District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, Los Angeles, CA, Ronald E. LeFevre, Office of the District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
Before: RYMER, McKEOWN and PAEZ, 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
Jose Manuel Perez Huerta, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order denying his motion to reopen based on ineffective assistance of counsel. Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for abuse of discretion the BIA's denial of a motion to reopen and review de novo constitutional claims, including claims of ineffective assistance of counsel. Mohammed v. Gonzales, 400 F.3d 785, 791-92 (9th Cir.2005). We deny in part and dismiss in part the petition for review.
The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying Perez Huerta's motion to reopen as untimely because he filed his motion to reopen nine months after the BIA's July 17, 2006, order, 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2), and failed to establish grounds for equitable tolling, see Iturribarria v. INS, 321 F.3d 889, 897-98 (9th Cir.2003).
We lack jurisdiction to review Perez Huerta's claim that the BIA should have granted his motion to reopen to apply for adjustment of status under Matter of Velarde-Pacheco, 23 I. & N. Dec. 253 (BIA 2002) (en banc), because he failed to exhaust this claim before the agency. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 678 (9th Cir.2004).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED in part; DISMISSED in part.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9 th Cir. R. 36-3.