Mahn v. Att'y Gen. of the United States, No. 12-4377 (3d Cir. 2014)
Annotate this CaseMahn, a citizen of Liberia, entered the U.S. in 2000 as a refugee. Five years later, he adjusted his status to lawful permanent resident. In 2007-2008, Mahn pled guilty in Pennsylvania to theft by deception and forgery and to recklessly endangering another person, based on losing control of his car and hitting a building. In 2011, DHS charged that he was removable under 8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(2)(A)(ii) for having “been convicted of two crimes involving moral turpitude not arising out of a single scheme.” Mahn unsuccessfully moved to terminate removal proceedings. The IJ ordered Mahn removed to Liberia. The Board of Immigration Appeals affirmed, reasoning that Mahn’s reckless endangerment conviction constituted a CIMT because “the statute under which [he] was convicted defines recklessness as a conscious disregard of a substantial risk of such a nature that it amounts to a gross deviation from the standard of care of a reasonable person” and is “coupled with the requirement that the conduct place another person in danger of death or serious bodily injury.” The Third Circuit vacated and remanded. Applying the categorical approach, the least culpable conduct punishable under Pennsylvania’s reckless endangerment statute does not implicate moral turpitude.
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