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FILED
                             NOT FOR PUBLICATION
                                                                            JAN 12 2016
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                      MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                         U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

                             FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

MANUEL JESUS LOPEZ-ISLAVA,                       No. 14-71920
AKA Manuel Jesus Islava-Lopaz, AKA
Manuel De Jesus Lopez, AKA Manuel                Agency No. A092-446-307
DeJesus Lopez Islava,

              Petitioner,                        MEMORANDUM*

  v.

LORETTA E. LYNCH, Attorney General,

              Respondent.

                     On Petition for Review of an Order of the
                         Board of Immigration Appeals

                            Submitted November 20, 2015**
                               San Francisco, California

Before: W. FLETCHER, RAWLINSON, and PARKER,*** Circuit Judges.

        *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
        **
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
       ***
            The Honorable Barrington D. Parker, Jr., Senior Circuit Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, sitting by designation.
      Petitioner Manuel Jesus Lopez-Islava (Lopez-Islava) petitions for review of

a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) determining that Lopez-

Islava’s conviction for residential burglary under Arizona Revised Statute § 13-

1507 was an aggravated felony within the meaning of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(F).

Specifically, the BIA determined that Lopez-Islava’s burglary offense constituted a

crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 16(b).1

      However, we conclude that our recent decision in Dimaya v. Lynch, 803
F.3d 1110 (9th Cir. 2015), controls the outcome of this case. In Dimaya, we

adhered to the rationale articulated in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551,

2558 (2015), where the Court held that the residual clause defining a violent felony

under the Armed Career Criminal Act of 1984 was unconstitutionally vague. We

held that the similar “residual clause definition of a violent felony [under 18 U.S.C.

§ 16(b)] is unconstitutionally vague. . . .” Dimaya, 803 F.3d at 1111 (internal

quotation marks omitted). We are bound by this precedent, which does not support

the BIA’s determination.

      The petition for review is GRANTED and we REMAND to the BIA for

further proceedings consistent with this disposition.

      1
         18 U.S.C. § 16(b) defines a crime of violence as a felony offense “that, by
its nature, involves a substantial risk that physical force against the person or
property of another may be used in the course of committing the offense.”
                                          2