18-842-ag Jack v. Barr 1 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 2 FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT 3 4 August Term, 2019 5 6 (Submitted: April 16, 2020 Decided: July 16, 2020) 7 8 Docket Nos. 18-842-ag; 9 18-1479-ag 10 11 _____________________________________ 12 13 JERVIS GLENROY JACK, AKA JACK BROWN, AKA JERVIS 14 GLENROY, AKA JERVIS JACK, 15 16 Petitioner, 17 18 v. 19 20 WILLIAM P. BARR, UNITED STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL, 21 22 Respondent. 23 24 _____________________________________ 25 26 OUSMANE AG, 27 28 Petitioner, 29 30 v. 31 32 WILLIAM P. BARR, UNITED STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL, 33 34 Respondent. 35 36 _____________________________________ 1 Before: 2 3 LIVINGSTON, LOHIER, and NARDINI, Circuit Judges. 4 5 In these tandem cases, Jervis Glenroy Jack and Ousmane Ag each petition 6 for review of decisions of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) ordering them 7 removed based on their New York firearms convictions. See 8 U.S.C. 8 § 1227(a)(2)(A)(iii), (a)(2)(C). We principally conclude that the statutes of 9 conviction, sections 265.03 and 265.11 of the New York Penal Law, criminalize 10 conduct involving “antique firearms” that the relevant firearms offense 11 definitions in the Immigration and Nationality Act do not. This categorical 12 mismatch precludes the petitioners’ removal on the basis of their state 13 convictions. We therefore GRANT the petitions, VACATE the decisions of the 14 BIA, and REMAND both causes to the agency with instructions to terminate 15 removal proceedings. 16 17 Nicholas J. Phillips, Joseph Moravec, Prisoners’ Legal 18 Services of New York, Buffalo, NY; Alan E. Schoenfeld, 19 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, New York, 20 NY, for Jervis Glenroy Jack, Petitioner in No. 18-842-ag. 21 22 Stephanie Lopez, Neighborhood Defender Service of 23 Harlem, New York, NY; Alan E. Schoenfeld, Andrew 24 Sokol, Beezly J. Kiernan, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale 25 and Dorr LLP, New York, NY, for Ousmane Ag, Petitioner 26 in No. 18-1479-ag. 27 28 Dana M. Camilleri, Trial Attorney, Anthony P. Nicastro, 29 Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, for 30 Joseph H. Hunt, Assistant Attorney General, Civil 31 Division, United States Department of Justice, 32 Washington, D.C., for William P. Barr, United States 33 Attorney General, Respondent in No. 18-842-ag. 34 35 Allison Frayer, Trial Attorney, Melissa Neiman-Kelting, 36 Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, for 2 1 Joseph H. Hunt, Assistant Attorney General, Civil 2 Division, United States Department of Justice, 3 Washington, D.C., for William P. Barr, United States 4 Attorney General, Respondent in No. 18-1479-ag. 5 6 PER CURIAM: 7 In these tandem cases, Jervis Glenroy Jack and Ousmane Ag each petition 8 for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) finding them 9 removable for having been convicted of a firearms offense, 8 U.S.C. 10 § 1227(a)(2)(C), and also, in Jack’s case, for having been convicted of a firearms 11 trafficking aggravated felony, 8 U.S.C. §§ 1101(a)(43)(C), 1227(a)(2)(A)(iii). On 12 appeal, both Jack and Ag argue that the BIA should have granted their motions 13 to ...
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