United States Third Circuit

The Board of Immigration Appeals violated an asylum applicant's due process rights by resting its credibility determination almost solely on an unreliable and untrustworthy letter, and abused its discretion in refusing to reopen the record to consider a psychological report.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/25/2002
• Decided 04/14/2003
• Published 04/14/2003

Judges

• Before BECKER, Chief Judge, SCIRICA, and RENDELL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sidney S. Rosdeitcher,Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York, for Petitioner Glory Obianuju Ezeagwuna., James C. La Forge, Chadbourne & Parke, Upper Montclair, for Amicus-Appellant Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael T. Dougherty, United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, Richard M. Evans, Terri J. Scadron, John M. McAdams, Jr., Donald E. Keener, Francis W. Fraser, United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, Brian G. Slocum, United States Department of Justice, Washington, for Respondent John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States.