United States First Circuit

Petition for review of a denial of an application for asylum, withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture is denied where substantial evidence supported the IJ's and BIA's rulings that petitioners' accounts of political persecution lacked credibility.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/24/2008
• Published 01/24/2008

Judges

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

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Joseph A. MacDonald, on brief, for petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Elizabeth A. Greczek, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, and Barry J. Pettinato, Assistant Director, on brief, for respondent.