The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) has narrowed the instances in which two crimes involving moral turpitude will be considered part of the same scheme. The BIA has said that crimes that immediately follow one another are not necessarily part of the same scheme - in this case, the non-citizen was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon and failure to render aid when he hit pedestrians with his car and kept driving. Rather, crimes will only be arising out of a single scheme if: 1) one crime is a lesser offense of the other; 2) he defendant performs a single act that concurrently harms multiple victims in essentially the same way (i.e., robbing multiple people at once); or 3) are acts that occur within a comparatively short time of each other, involve the same parties, and the first act or acts are committed for the purpose of making possible the specific criminal objective accomplished by the last of the criminal acts (i.e., assaulting a guard to commit a larceny).

The full text of Matter of Baeza-Galindo can be found here: https://www.justice.gov/d9/2025-02/4085.pdf

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