United States Eighth Circuit

Petitioner failed to establish that as a Baptist he had a well-founded fear of persecution if he returned to his native Belarus where he could not show that a reasonable fact finder would find that petitioner's alleged persecution was religiously motivated.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/25/2001
• Published 05/25/2001

Judges

• MAGILL, Circuit Judge., Before HANSEN, MAGILL, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael H. Davis and H. Audrey Carr, Minneapolis, MN, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey J. Bernstein, Justice Dept., Washington, DC, for appellee.