FILED
NOT FOR PUBLICATION JUL 19 2011
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS U .S. C O U R T OF APPE ALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
JOSE ANTONIO CAMPOS-MORENO, No. 09-70572
Petitioner, Agency No. A045-125-232
v.
MEMORANDUM *
ERIC H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General,
Respondent.
On Petition for Review of an Order of the
Board of Immigration Appeals
Submitted July 13, 2011 **
Pasadena, California
Before: FERNANDEZ, RYMER, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.
Jose Antonio Campos-Moreno petitions for review of the BIA’s order
dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s removal order. Campos-
Moreno claims that he was not convicted of a crime of violence when he pleaded
*
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).
guilty to committing false imprisonment by “violence, menace, fraud, and deceit.”
He also claims that the IJ violated his right to due process in his immigration
hearing. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252, and we deny the petition in
part and remand in part.
I
We review de novo due process claims in immigration proceedings. Garcia
de Rincon v. DHS, 539 F.3d 1133, 1136 (9th Cir. 2008). Whether a particular
crime is a removable offense is reviewed de novo. Morales-Alegria v. Gonzales,
449 F.3d 1051, 1053 (9th Cir. 2006).
II
California charged Campos-Moreno with committing false imprisonment
“by violence, menace, fraud, and deceit.” The plea colloquy transcripts show that
the court read the Information’s charges aloud and that Campos-Moreno pleaded
guilty “as charged to [in] the Information.” This is a sufficient factual basis to
determine whether Campos-Moreno was convicted of a crime of violence. See
Fregozo v. Holder, 576 F.3d 1030, 1040 (9th Cir. 2009) (court may look to the
“record of the plea proceedings” to determine if “the defendant admitted to facts”).
“We have previously held that ‘when a defendant pleads guilty . . . to facts
stated in the conjunctive, each factual allegation is taken as true.’” United States v.
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Almazan-Becerra, 482 F.3d 1085, 1089 (9th Cir. 2007) (quoting United States v.
Smith, 390 F.3d 661, 665 (9th Cir. 2004)). Because Campos-Moreno pleaded in
the conjunctive, he necessarily pleaded guilty to committing false imprisonment by
violence. United States v. Snellenberger, 548 F.3d 699, 701-02 (9th Cir. 2008) (en
banc). Thus, he was removable from the United States. 8 U.S.C. §§
1101(a)(43)(F), 1227(a)(2)(A)(iii). The cases cited by Campos-Moreno do not
compel a different result, because they do not overrule Snellenberger’s en banc
decision.1 We deny Campos-Moreno’s petition to review this claim.
III
Campos-Moreno raised his due process claim before the BIA, but the Board
did not address the claim in its decision. Though we may think the claim
unmeritorious, “we are not permitted to decide a claim that the immigration court
has not considered in the first instance.” Montes-Lopez v. Gonzales, 486 F.3d
1163, 1165 (9th Cir. 2007) (citing INS v. Ventura, 537 U.S. 12, 16 (2002) (per
curiam)). We therefore remand this claim for the BIA to consider and decide.
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED in part; REMANDED in part.
1
We note that the transcript of Campos-Moreno’s plea colloquy reflects that
he pled “as charged to [in] the Information.” As a result, he would be bound by its
conjunctive terms even under those cases on which he relies. See, e.g., Young v.
Holder, 634 F.3d 1014, 1023 (9th Cir. 2011).
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