U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1972

Buchowiecki-Kortkiewicz v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service

Buchowiecki-Kortkiewicz v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · Decided February 9, 1972
455 F.2d 972 (Federal Reporter, Second Series)

Buchowiecki-Kortkiewicz v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM:

The decision of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which has ordered the deportation of Buchowiecki-Kortkiewicz, is affirmed. Also, the denial in district court of a petition for habeas corpus is affirmed.

Appellant primarily attacks on a constitutional basis the classification in the statute which permits his plea of guilty to possession of marijuana in violation of a California state penal statute to be a basis for deportation.

Congress had made the classification and we cannot say that it has no rational basis.

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