Nigerian involved in 2000 Americruise crash will not be deported

Waadah free after winning deportation case; Lincoln Journal Star ever in search of sympathetic stories of immigrants finds that Anthony Waadah who sped down O Street during the 2000 Americruise, jumped 2 curbs, hit a tree and fatally injured a spectator by flattening her will not be deported, thanks to a 2004 SCOTUS ruling that nonviolent crimes do not qualify for deportation. Leocal v. Ashcroft. Waadah was bench tried on manslaughter and was convicted but sentenced to 1-3 years. State v Waadah (unpublished 2003). The authorities called this extremely careless driver negligent but not violent, which I think is a stretch.