United States Second Circuit

Petition for review challenging decision finding petitioner statutorily ineligible for asylum or withholding of removal on the basis of the persecutor bar is granted as the IJ erred in concluding that petitioner was statutorily barred from obtaining asylum or withholding of removal on the basis that he had "assisted" in the persecution of others.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/04/2007
• Published 09/04/2007

Judges

• POOLER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  POOLER, PARKER, and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gang Zhou, New York, NY, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Benjamin H. White, Jr., First Assistant United States Attorney, for Anna Mills Wagoner, United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, for Respondent.