Court Opinion

ID: 9461781
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 22:24:27.461309+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:37:15.652903
License: Public Domain

RIVES, Circuit Judge
(concurring specially):
With reluctance, I concur fully in the Court’s opinion. I agree that the offenses for which Soetarto was convicted in 1958 did involve some degree of moral turpitude. The sentencing justice imposed such lenient punishment as to indicate the probable existence of extenuating circumstances surrounding the two thefts. In this case, deportation without an exhaustive inquiry into the facts and circumstances of the two thefts and into the question of whether Soetarto had been completely rehabilitated leaves undetermined whether or not a just result has been reached. There is, however, little or no doubt that the thefts involved some degree of moral turpitude. This Court has no authority to conduct or to order the conduct of any further inquiry. Ultimate responsibility for the policy of the law rests upon Congress.