United States First Circuit

Where there was a hearing, substantial testimony, and a reasoned decision from the immigration judge, garden-variety claims that counsel should have handled matters differently are not adequate to show the deprivation of a constitutionally adequate opportunity to make a case.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/26/2001
• Published 01/26/2001

Judges

• BOUDIN, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, Circuit Judge, BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge, and STAHL, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Randy Olen, for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Papu Sandhu, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Department or Justice, with whom David W. Ogden, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Emily Anne Radford, Assistant Director, were on brief for respondents.