United States Second Circuit

Petition for review of denial of applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture is denied over primary claim that the IJ, Judge, in finding petitioner incredible, impermissibly relied upon "striking similarities" between petitioner's affidavit and an affidavit filed by a different alien in a separate case.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/06/2007
• Published 06/06/2007

Judges

• CALABRESI, Circuit Judge., Before:  CALABRESI, SACK and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Theodore Cox (David X. Feng, The Feng Law Firm, P.C., on the brief), New York, NY, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard S. Murray, Assistant United States Attorney, for Margaret M. Chiara, United States Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, Grand Rapids, MI, for Respondents.