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01/24/2022
Crimes

This page offers resources on “crim/imm,” the law governing the intersection of immigration and crimes, especially as it applies to California law.

This page includes the Public-Facing California Chart, Analysis: Selected Defenses to Selected California Crimes, as well as a series of short articles on crim/imm entitled Notes.

Immigration advocates and criminal defenders can access additional materials, including the full California Quick Reference Chart, educational videos, articles, and a blog, by filling out this form.

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PDF icon Public-Facing California Chart (January 2018)
PDF icon § N.1 Overview
PDF icon § N.2 Definition of Conviction (April 2019)
PDF icon § N.3 How to Use the Categorical Approach Now (October 2021)
PDF icon § N.4 Sentence (October 2020)
PDF icon § N.5 SB 54 and the California Values Act (February 2018)
PDF icon § N.5A Immigration Detainers (December 2021)
PDF icon § N.6 Aggravated Felonies
PDF icon § N.7 Crimes Involving Moral Turpitude (October 2018)
PDF icon See also All Those Rules About Crimes Involving Moral Turpitude (May 2021)
PDF icon § N.8 Controlled Substance (March 2019)
PDF icon See also Pereida and California Offenses (April 2021) (focusing on drugs)
PDF icon § N.9 Violence, Domestic Violence, and Child Abuse (3/25/2014)
PDF icon See also ILRC, Case Update: Domestic violence Deportation Ground (November 2019)
PDF icon § N.10 Sex Offenses (3/27/2014)
PDF icon See also ILRC, Supreme Court Rules in Sexual Abuse of a Minor Case (June 2017)
PDF icon § N.11 Burglary, Theft and Fraud (1/7/2019)
PDF icon § N.12 Firearms
PDF icon Important Update on Firearms
PDF icon § N.13 Convictions that Bar the Defendant from Petitioning for Family Members: the Adam Walsh Act
PDF icon § N.15 Delinquency (June 2019)
PDF icon § N.16 Client Questionnaire (July 2020)
PDF icon § N.16 Client Questionnaire - Spanish
PDF icon § N.17 Immigration Relief Toolkit (August 2018)
PDF icon § N.18 Additional Resources
PDF icon § N.17A Updated Immigration Relief Chart (December 2021)