United States Second Circuit

In a petition for review of the BIA's order denying petitioner's application for asylum, withholding of removal under 8 U.S.C. section 1231(b)(3), and withholding of removal under the Convention Against Torture, the petition is denied where petitioner's participation in a scheme to sell organs for profit on the black market was a serious nonpolitical crime.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/02/2009
• Published 10/02/2009

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before:  WALKER, KATZMANN, and ROTH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John F. Clark, Holland & Hart LLP, Washington, DC, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• James E. Grimes, Senior Litigation Counsel (Gregory G. Katsas, Assistant Attorney General, Linda S. Wernery, Assistant Director, on the brief), Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.