United States Fourth Circuit

A petition for review of a denial of an asylum application is granted where the immigration judge erred as a matter of law in holding petitioner to an overly stringent legal standard: proving that political persecution was the government's sole motive.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/29/2005
• Decided 03/13/2006
• Published 03/13/2006

Judges

• Before WILLIAMS, KING, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  David Allen Garfield, Washington, D.C., for Petitioner.   Theodore Charles Hirt, Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.   ON BRIEF:  Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Margaret Perry, Senior Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.