United States First Circuit

Denial of plaintiff's application for asylum is vacated and remanded where both the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Immigration Judge failed to explain with adequate clarity the grounds for rejecting plaintiff's past persecution claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/17/2004
• Published 08/19/2004

Judges

• LIPEZ, Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA, LYNCH, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Peter Darvin for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Hillel R. Smith, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, with whom Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Terri J. Scadron, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, were on brief, for appellee.