Case Name: Ruben HERNANDEZ CORONA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2011-10-31
Citations: 456 F. App'x 669
Docket Number: No. 09-73927
Parties: Ruben HERNANDEZ CORONA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: TROTT, GOULD, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 456
Pages: 669–670

Head Matter:
Ruben HERNANDEZ CORONA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 09-73927.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Oct. 25, 2011.
Filed Oct. 31, 2011.
Elsa Ines Martinez, Esquire, Xavier Ro-sas, Law Offices of Elsa Martinez, PLC, Los Angeles, CA, for Petitioner.
Oil, David V. Bernal, Assistant Director, Yedidya Cohen, Trial, Jennifer Paisner, 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: TROTT, GOULD, and RAWLINSON, 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
Ruben Hernandez Corona, 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 de novo questions of law, Nunez-Reyes v. Holder, 646 F.3d 684, 688 (9th Cir.2011) (en banc), and we deny the petition for review.
Hernandez Corona's violation of the terms of his grant of deferred entry of judgment under Cal.Penal Code § 1000 et seq. would have rendered him ineligible for a disposition under the Federal First Offender Act had his crime been prosecuted in federal court. See 18 U.S.C. § 3607(a) (allowing for dismissal of proceedings, either during or at the end of a period of probation, "if the person has not violated a condition of his probation"). Accordingly, the subsequent expungement of Hernandez Corona's conviction under Cal.Penal Code § 1203.4 does not eliminate its immigration consequences. See Estrada v. Holder, 560 F.3d 1039, 1042 (9th Cir.2009); see also Nunez-Reyes, 646 F.3d at 713 ("[Pjersons who received the benefit of a state expungement law were not subject to deportation as long as they could have received the benefit of the FFOA if they had been prosecuted under federal law.") (emphasis in original) (citation and quotations omitted).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9 th Cir. R. 36-3.