Case Name: Lyndon Christopher YOUNG, also known as Lyndon Young, also known as Lyndon Griffith, Petitioner v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., U.S. Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-08-04
Citations: 389 F. App'x 350
Docket Number: No. 08-60278
Parties: Lyndon Christopher YOUNG, also known as Lyndon Young, also known as Lyndon Griffith, Petitioner v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., U.S. Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before HIGGINBOTHAM, CLEMENT, and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 389
Pages: 350–351

Head Matter:
Lyndon Christopher YOUNG, also known as Lyndon Young, also known as Lyndon Griffith, Petitioner v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., U.S. Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 08-60278
Summary Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
Aug. 4, 2010.
Adam S. Hakki, Katherine Mallory Tosch, Shearman & Sterling LLP, New York, NY, for Petitioner.
Thomas Ward Hussey, Director, Edward C. Durant, Blair T. O’Connor, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation Ben Franklin Station, Washington, DC, Trey Lund, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Field Office Director Attn: Carl Perry, New Orleans, LA, for Respondent.
Before HIGGINBOTHAM, CLEMENT, and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
ON REMAND FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
PER CURIAM:
Lyndon Christopher Young petitioned for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) finding him ineligible for cancellation of removal. We denied the petition. The Supreme Court vacated our decision and remanded to this court for further consideration in light of its ruling in Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder, -U.S.-, 130 S.Ct. 2577, 177 L.Ed.2d 68 (2010).
Young, a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago, was admitted as a lawful permanent resident of the United States in March 1976. Removal proceedings were instituted. Young conceded removability based on his guilty plea in 1996 for unlawful possession of marijuana and third degree criminal possession of a firearm, and also on his guilty plea in 2006 for criminal possession of marijuana in the fifth degree. He applied for asylum, for withholding of removal and for relief under the Convention Against Torture. The Immigration Judge found Young ineligible for cancellation of removal because his second marijuana conviction qualified as an aggravated felony under the Immigration and Nationality Act. The BIA affirmed the order of removal.
We denied Young's petition for review because his 2006 conviction qualified as an aggravated felony despite that he had not been prosecuted as a recidivist under New York law. Young v. Holder, 344 Fed. Appx. 944 (5th Cir.2009). We relied on our holding in Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder, 570 F.3d 263 (5th Cir.2009). The Supreme Court has now reversed Cara-churi-Rosendo, holding that "when a defendant has been convicted of a simple possession offense that has not been enhanced based on the fact of a prior conviction, he has not been 'convicted' under [21 U.S.C.] § 1229b(a)(3) of a 'felony punishable' as such 'under the Controlled Substances Act,' 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(2)." Carachuri-Rosendo, 130 S.Ct. at 2589. The defendant must have been "actually convicted of a crime that is itself punishable as a felony under federal law." Id. (emphasis in original).
Using this definition, Young was not "actually convicted" under the New York state recidivist statute. Consequently, the BIA's holding that he was, in reliance on our now reversed caselaw, was in error.
We VACATE and REMAND to allow Young to pursue cancellation of removal in light of the Supreme Court's ruling in Carachuri-Rosendo.
Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.