{"content":[{"text":"RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION \n Pursuant to Sixth Circuit Rule 206 \n File Name: 06a0369a.06 \n UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS \n FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT \n _________________","bbox":{"left":0.275588,"top":0.066629,"width":0.44890900000000006,"height":0.12225000000000003}},{"text":"X \n CHRISTOPHER PICKERING, - \n Petitioner, - \n - \n ->, No. 03-3928 \n v. \n - \n ALBERTO GONZALES, Attorney General, \n - \n Respondent. - \n - \n - \n N \n On Petition for Review of a Decision \n by the Board of Immigration Appeals. \n No. A70 539 319 Detroit. \n Argued: December 1, 2004 \n Decided and Filed: October 4, 2006 \n Before: DAUGHTREY and GILMAN, Circuit Judges, and RICE, Senior District Judge.* \n _________________ \n COUNSEL \n ARGUED: Russell R. Abrutyn, MARSHAL E. HYMAN & ASSOCIATES, Troy, Michigan, for \n Petitioner. Greg D. Mack, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE,, Washington, D.C., \n for Respondent. ON BRIEF: Marshal E. Hyman, MARSHAL E. HYMAN & ASSOCIATES, \n Troy, Michigan, for Petitioner. Greg D. Mack, Donald Keener, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT \n OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Respondent. \n _______________________ \n AMENDED OPINION \n _______________________ \n WALTER H. RICE, Senior District Judge. Petitioner Christopher Pickering seeks review \n of a Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) order permanently barring him from the United States, \n based on a Canadian conviction for a drug offense, for which he was later pardoned pursuant to \n Canadian law, and which was later quashed by a Canadian appellate court. \n Finding prejudicial error, we grant the Petition for Review.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.20697,"width":0.764823,"height":0.664409}},{"text":"*The \n Honorable Walter H. Rice, Senior United States District Court Judge for the Southern District of Ohio, \n sitting by designation.","bbox":{"left":0.117646,"top":0.897667,"width":0.7648739999999999,"height":0.03480700000000003}},{"text":"1","bbox":{"left":0.495196,"top":0.952833,"width":0.00980399999999998,"height":0.020212000000000008}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}