United States Eleventh Circuit

In a petition for review of the BIA's decision affirming the immigration judge's (IJ) order denying petitioner's applications for asylum and withholding of removal, the petition is denied where: 1) petitioner was given the opportunity to testify or offer any evidence she or her counsel might have thought could have persuaded the IJ; 2) petitioner offered no explanation as to how her prior offense of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon was not a particularly serious crime; and 3) petitioner was not entitled to relief under the Convention Against Torture because she made no allegation of persecution at the hands of the government, nor any allegation of government acquiescence to outside forces.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/12/2010
• Published 05/12/2010

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before PRYOR and FAY, Circuit Judges, and QUIST, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel