The Ninth Circuit has determined that a federal conviction for cockfighting is not necessarily a crime involving moral turpitude.  In light of its case law indicating that a non-fraud conviction should only qualify as a crime involving moral turpitude if the statute requires an intent to injure another person, actual infliction of injury on another person, or a protected class of victims, the court remanded to the Board of Immigration Appeals to further explain its finding that this conviction qualifies as a crime involving moral turpitude.

The full text of Ortega-Lopez v. Lynch can be found here:

http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2016/08/23/13-71127.pdf

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