The Ninth Circuit has remanded a case for further analysis of whether a Washington conviction for attempting to elude a police vehicle is a crime involving moral turpitude, in light of changes to mens rea requirement in the statute. Although the Board of Immigration Appeals has previously held that the statute is categorically a crime involving moral turpitude in Matter of Ruiz-Lopez, since that time, the legislature has changed the mens rea from “wanton or willful disregard for the lives or property of others” to mere recklessness.
The full text of Zhovtonizhko v. Garland can be found here:
https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2023/06/07/21-584.pdf