United States Fifth Circuit

The Board of Immigration Appeals' grant to reopen an asylum immigrant's case was proper, based on a State Department telegram which cast doubt on his prior testimony; an asylum claim was barred based on commission of a serious crime of moral turpitude, and a Convention Against Torture claim was appropriately considered and denied.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/20/2002
• Published 06/20/2002

Judges

• CLEMENT, Circuit Judge:, Before STEWART and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Morton Sklar (argued), World Organization Against Torture USA, Washington, DC, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Patrick P. Shen (argued), U.S. Dept. of Justice, Immigration Litigation, Thomas Ward Hussey, Director, Linda Susan Wendtland, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div. Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Roger D. Piper, U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service, Houston, TX, Christine G. Davis, U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service, District Directors Office, Attn:  Joe A. Aguilar, New Orleans, LA, for Respondent.