United States First Circuit

Petition for review of decision denying application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT) is denied where: 1) regardless of students' motives, harm experienced by Indonesian petitioner in one-time school violence incident did not amount to past persecution; 2) there was no connection between the Indonesian government's treatment of Christians generally and the isolated attack on petitioner; 3) petitioner failed to satisfy requirement for withholding of removal; and 4) because petitioner did not make any arguments before the BIA regarding relief under CAT, that claim is waived.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/08/2008
• Published 08/08/2008

Judges

• LYNCH, Chief Judge., Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, SELYA and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William A. Hahn and Hahn & Matkov, on brief for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kathleen J. Kelly, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Jeffrey S. Bucholtz, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Mary Jane Candaux, Assistant Director, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, on brief for respondent.