United States First Circuit

Denial of an application for asylum and for the withholding of removal is affirmed where petitioner failed to show he was singled out for persecution, and petitioner failed to make a prima facie case for protection under the Convention Against Torture.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/28/2003
• Published 04/28/2003

Judges

• LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge., Before HOWARD, Circuit Judge, CAMPBELL and CYR, Senior Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen A. Lagana, for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• William C. Minick, Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, with whom Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Linda S. Wernery, Senior Litigation Counsel, were on brief, for respondent.