United States Eleventh Circuit

Denial of applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture is vacated as to one petitioner's asylum application and order of removal where he suffered past persecution for his political opinion, and vacated as to the other petitioner's application for withholding of removal and order of removal as it was denied based on the IJ's determination that the first petitioner was ineligible for asylum.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/17/2007
• Published 07/17/2007

Judges

• MARCUS, Circuit Judge:, Before ANDERSON, MARCUS and COX, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Marcial Antonio De Sautu, De Sautu & Associates, P.A., Coral Gables, FL, for Petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Stuart S. Nickum, David V. Bernal, Patricia Hurt, Andrew C. MacLachlan, U.S. Dept. of Justice, OIL, Civ. Div., Washington, DC, for Respondent.