P. v. Angeles CA5
In 2001, appellant Manuel Silva Angeles (appellant) pleaded no contest to felony possession of cocaine (Health & Saf. Code, § 11550) and misdemeanor driving with a blood-alcohol content of 0.08 percent or greater (Veh. Code, § 23152, subd. (b)) and was placed on probation.
Appellant was not a citizen of the United States. At the time of his plea, according to postconviction declarations filed by his immigration attorney, appellant was “the derivative beneficiary” of a visa petition filed in 1992 by his father, and the petition had been “approved” but was “pending.”
Appellant declared that he became the subject to removal proceedings in 2014.
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