United States Eleventh Circuit

In case involving a gravely ill AIDS patient claiming he will be tortured in jail if he is removed to Haiti as a criminal alien, petition for review challenging denial of application for withholding of removal is granted where thee BIA failed to consider the heart of petitioner's claims that certain conduct carried out in Haiti is torture.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/19/2007
• Published 09/19/2007

Judges

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

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Rebecca Sharpless, FIU College of Law, Clinical Programs, Miami, FL, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Anthony P. Nicastro, David V. Bernal, Margaret K. Taylor, Ernesto H. Molina, Jr., U.S. Dept. of Justice, OIL, Civ. Div., Washington, DC, for Respondent.