United States First Circuit

Petition for review of a decision denying asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the United Nations Convention Against Torture is denied where: 1) substantial evidence supported an Immigration Judge's determination that plaintiff was not persecuted on account of a statutorily protected ground, and that the most likely impetus for the acts against him was greed, not politics; and 2) the court did not violate plaintiff's due process rights in refusing to grant him a further continuance as he was not prejudiced by the denial.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/14/2009
• Published 07/14/2009

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, SELYA and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael A. Paris and Cutler & Associates on brief for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael F. Hertz, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Hillel Smith and Anthony Wray Norwood, Trial Attorneys, Office of Immigration Litigation, on brief for respondent.