United States First Circuit

Denial of an application for asylum and withholding of deportation is affirmed where the record does not compel a conclusion that petitioner demonstrated a well-founded fear of persecution.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/23/2002
• Published 12/23/2002

Judges

• STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Maureen O'Sullivan, with whom Ilana Greenstein, Jeremiah Friedman, Harvey Kaplan, and Kaplan, O'Sullivan & Friedman, LLP, were on brief for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Brenda M. O'Malley, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, with whom Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Christopher C. Fuller, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, were on brief for respondent.