376 U.S. 120 (1964) Cited 75 times 2 Legal Analyses
Holding that "a person now an alien who was convicted of the two crimes in question while he was a naturalized citizen" is not deportable under the provision
Holding that INS failed to prove that crimes of receiving stolen vehicle and stealing a different vehicle one day later were not part of a single scheme
In Wood, we rejected the BIA’s interpretation as "not what the statute says" because the BIA "applied the statute as if it read ‘single criminal act’ " rather than "single scheme of criminal misconduct."
In Chanan Din Kahn v Barber (253 F.2d 547), the court held that fraudulent filing of tax returns for two successive years were not crimes arising out of a single scheme of criminal misconduct.
In Costello, supra, we held that where the acts constituting the commission of two crimes are separated by a substantial interval of time, a special inquiry officer of the Immigration and Naturalization Service would be required to find that an alien had been convicted of two crimes not arising out of a single scheme of criminal misconduct, in the absence of additional facts to support an inference that the two crimes were related. 311 F.2d at 347.
In Nason v. INS, 394 F.2d 223 (2d Cir. 1968), this Court adopted an expansive definition of the phrase, permitting a specific, coherent plan of future action to constitute a single scheme of criminal misconduct.
In Maroon v. Immigration Naturalization Service, 364 F.2d 982 (CA8 1966), the alleged alien — somewhat like petitioner here — changed his story between the deportation proceedings and judicial review, in the face of solid contrary documentation offered by the Service.