United States Seventh Circuit

Petition for review of denial of an asylum claim is denied since being a material witness, even to a political crime, is not a status that asylum law protects, and petitioner did not fall into any other protected status.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/18/2005
• Decided 11/15/2005
• Published 11/15/2005

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, KANNE, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Godfrey Y. Muwonge (argued), Milwaukee, WI, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Karen Lundgren, Department of Homeland Security, Office of the District Counsel, Frank J. Vondrak (argued), Department of Justice Antitrust Division, Chicago, IL, for Respondent.