Opinion
No. 14-73282
09-18-2017
STEFAN JOHN DENSER, AKA Robert John Denser, AKA Sean, Petitioner, v. JEFFERSON B. SESSIONS III, Attorney General, Respondent.
NOT FOR PUBLICATION
Agency No. A017-206-586 MEMORANDUM On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals Submitted September 13, 2017 San Francisco, California Before: KOZINSKI and FRIEDLAND, Circuit Judges, and ARTERTON, District Judge.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 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 Janet Bond Arterton, Senior United States District Judge for the District of Connecticut, sitting by designation. --------
Stefan Denser petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' decision affirming the denial of his application for withholding of removal. We have no jurisdiction to consider Denser's factual argument that his conviction was not for a "particularly serious" crime. See Pechenkov v. Holder, 705 F.3d 444, 448-49 (9th Cir. 2012). We do have jurisdiction to consider his legal argument—that the BIA applied an incorrect legal test—and we consider that argument de novo. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(D); Brezilien v. Holder, 569 F.3d 403, 410-11 (9th Cir. 2009). But because we have already determined that the challenged test is valid, Denser cannot succeed. See Miguel-Miguel v. Gonzales, 500 F.3d 941, 944-49 (9th Cir. 2007) (reviewing and upholding the test described in In re Y-L-, A-G- & R-S-R-, 23 I&N Dec. 270 (2002), overruled on other grounds by Zheng v. Ashcroft, 332 F.3d 1186, 1196 (9th Cir. 2003)); see also Rendon v. Mukasey, 520 F.3d 967, 973-76 (9th Cir. 2008) (upholding a removal order under application of the test in In re Y-L-).
DISMISSED in part and DENIED in part.