U.S. Panel Overturns Deportation
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals overturned a deportation order for a Haitian nanny convicted of killing an 18-month-old infant, saying the fatal beating she admitted giving the child was not a crime of violence.
The judges blocked the order in March, ruling that Melanie Jeanbeaucejour's deportation would cause her family "severe emotional hardship." She had twice been ordered out of the country by a U.S. immigration judge after serving two years of a six-year sentence in the child's death.
The previously undisclosed ruling, which remains under court seal, was handed down by Board of Immigration Appeals Judges Cecelia Espenoza, Gustavo Villageliu and Lory D. Rosenburg. All three were appointed by former Attorney General Janet Reno.