United States First Circuit

Substantial evidence supports the IJ's determination that there was no proven nexus between the violence in Sierra Leone and asylum petitioner's ethnicity and political beliefs.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/13/2004
• Published 04/13/2004

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, LYNCH, Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jacqueline L. Gomes on brief, for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Edward C. Durant, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Linda S. Wendtland, Assistant Director, and Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, on brief, for respondent.