In this webinar, we will explore arguments that a noncitizen is eligible to apply for relief from removal, such as LPR and non-LPR cancellation, the former 10-year suspension and 212(c) waiver, and 212(h) waivers, despite having a conviction that would appear to be a bar. The emphasis here is on proving that the noncitizen is statutorily eligible to apply for the relief, and not on how to present equities, etc. to win the relief. We will also discuss arguing that the government has the burden of proving that a conviction under a divisible statute is a bar to relief.

Presenters:
Kathy Brady, ILRC Senior Staff Attorney
Her expertise includes the immigration consequences of criminal convictions; issues affecting immigrant children and mixed families; immigration consultant and consumer fraud; family immigration; and trial skills. She is the primary author of ILRC's Defending Immigrants in the Ninth Circuit (formerly California Criminal Law and Immigration), and for many years was co-author of the section on defending noncitizens in the CEB manual, California Criminal Law: Procedure and Practice. She is a co-author of the Arizona Quick Reference Guide to Immigration Consequences of Convictions, and also the author of the California Reference Guide. She is a co-founder of the Defending Immigrants Partnership and the Immigrant Justice Network. Kathy authored briefs in key Ninth Circuit cases on immigration and crimes, and argued Lujan-Armendariz v. Ashcroft. In 2007, she received the Carol King award for advocacy from the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild.

Guest Speaker: TBD

Host:
Angie Junck, ILRC Staff Attorney
Part of Angie's work at the ILRC focuses on the relationship between immigration and criminal law. She is a co-author of ILRC's publication, Defending Immigrants in the Ninth Circuit, and the Arizona Quick Reference Guide to Immigration Consequences of Convictions. Her efforts to mitigate the difficult immigration consequences for criminal convictions of immigrants is at the core of the ILRC's Defending Immigrants Project, which assists public defenders and the Immigrant Justice Network, a project to build a movement to shift public perception of immigrants in the criminal justice system. Angie is a co-chair of the Detention Watch Network's Public Awareness Committee and is on the Advisory Board of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners. Prior to joining the ILRC, she worked on post-conviction relief for immigrants at the Law Offices of Norton Tooby and advocated on behalf of incarcerated survivors of domestic violence as the co-coordinator of Free Battered Women and a member of the Habeas Project.

Deadline to register: 6/8/10

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