Case Name: Aaron Manuel SOLIS-TADEO, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2012-01-26
Citations: 467 F. App'x 638
Docket Number: No. 09-72301
Parties: Aaron Manuel SOLIS-TADEO, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 467
Pages: 638–639

Head Matter:
Aaron Manuel SOLIS-TADEO, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 09-72301.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted Dec. 2, 2011.
Filed Jan. 26, 2012.
Katherine Louise Destefano, Dan L. Bagatell, Perkins Coie LLP, Phoenix, AZ, for Petitioner.
Aaron Manuel Solis-Tadeo, pro se.
Jesse Matthew Bless, David V. Bernal, Assistant Director, Michael Christopher Heyse, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division/Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Office of the Chief Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
Before: THOMAS and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges, and CARR, Senior District Judge.
The Honorable James G. Carr, Senior District Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Aaron Manuel Solis-Tadeo petitions for review of a dismissal by the- Board of Immigration Appeals of his appeal from an order of removal based on a finding that he had been convicted within five years of his admission to the United States of a crime involving moral turpitude ("CIMT") for which a sentence of one year or more may be imposed. We grant the petition and remand for further proceedings.
The decision of the Board incorrectly identified Solis's conviction as being for assault with a deadly weapon. Solis was charged with that crime, but that is not the offense for which he was convicted. As the government acknowledged, he was convicted under another part of California Penal Code § 245(a)(1), for assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury. When the Board fails to identify correctly the elements of the crime for which the petitioner was convicted, its decision merits no deference. See Uppal v. Holder, 605 F.3d 712, 715 (9th Cir.2010) ("Because the BIA failed to identify the elements of § 268 correctly, its CIMT analysis . is misdirected and so merits no deference from this Court."); see also Hemandez-Cruz v. Holder, 651 F.3d 1094, 1106 (9th Cir.2011) ("As the BIA erred at step one, we owe its CIMT analysis at step two no deference.").
Generally, an error by the Board in the first stage of a moral turpitude analysis warrants remanding for reconsideration. See Uppal, 605 F.3d at 719-20 (remanding where the Board may have misconstrued statutory elements of crime and applied CIMT analysis inconsistent with case law). The government argues that a conviction under any part of section 245(a)(1) should qualify categorically as a CIMT. Neither the Board nor this court has so held in a precedential opinion. We remand to the Board for consideration of whether the crime for which Solis was actually convicted constitutes a CIMT.
PETITION GRANTED AND REMANDED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.