United States Second Circuit

Petition for review of BIA decision denying petitioner's applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the CAT is granted where: 1) the decision was premised on an adverse credibility finding which failed to comport in certain respects with subsequently announced rulings by the court; and 2) it could not be confidently predicted that the BIA would have reached the same decision absent these errors.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/13/2008
• Published 06/13/2008

Judges

• REENA RAGGI, Circuit Judge., Before:  CALABRESI, RAGGI, and HALL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Yuming Wang, Wynnewood, PA, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark L. Nichols, Assistant United States Attorney, for Richard B. Roper, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth, TX, for Respondent.