United States Eighth Circuit

Plaintiff's petition for review is denied where an incident, in which three members of his family were killed by rebel forces in Sierra Leone, was an isolated incident and was not sufficient evidence of political or ethnic persecution to establish a claim of past persecution.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/17/2005
• Published 08/17/2005

Judges

• LOKEN, Chief Judge., Before LOKEN, Chief Judge, RILEY and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Barton C. Winter, argued, Minneapolis, MN, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ari Nazarov, argued, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC (Jamie M. Dowd, Trial Attorney, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, submitted the brief), for respondent.