Jose Luis Corrales-Navarro v. LORETTA E. LYNCH, Attorney General

NOT FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
JOSE LUIS CORRALES-NAVARRO,
Petitioner,
v.
LORETTA E. LYNCH, Attorney General,
Respondent.
No. 12-72507
Agency No. A020-451-318
MEMORANDUM*
On Petition for Review of an Order of the
Board of Immigration Appeals
Argued November 21, 2014
Submitted December 30, 2014
San Francisco, California
Before: THOMAS, Chief Judge, CHRISTEN, Circuit Judge, and SEABRIGHT,**
District Judge.
Jose Luis Corrales-Navarro, a native and citizen of Mexico, was convicted
of hindering prosecution under Arizona Revised Statute § 13-2512. An
FILED
MAR 31 2016
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
** The Honorable J. Michael Seabright, District Judge for the U.S.
District Court for the District of Hawaii, sitting by designation.

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Immigration Judge ordered him removed to Mexico, determining his conviction to
be an aggravated felony because it is an offense relating to obstruction of justice
under 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(S). Applying the interpretation of “obstruction of
justice” articulated in In re Valenzuela Gallardo, 25 I. & N. Dec. 838 (BIA 2012),
the Board of Immigration Appeals dismissed Corrales-Navarro’s appeal. Corrales-
Navarro now petitions for review.1
We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(D). In light of our
decision in Valenzuela Gallardo v. Lynch, No. 12-72326, we remand to the Board
for either application of the agency interpretation announced in In re Espinoza
Gonzalez, 22 I. & N. Dec. 889 (BIA 1999), or consideration of a new construction
of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(S). Because we do not reach Corrales-Navarro’s various
arguments, we deny as moot the Government’s motion to strike various portions of
Corrales-Navarro’s reply brief.
PETITION GRANTED IN PART, AND REMANDED.
1 The parties are familiar with the facts, so we do not recount them in
detail.

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Corrales-Navarro v. Lynch, No. 12-72507
SEABRIGHT, District Judge, dissenting:
I respectfully dissent for the reasons stated in my dissent from the majority
Opinion in Valenzuela Gallardo v. Lynch, No. 12-72326.
FILED
MAR 31 2016
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

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