United States Eighth Circuit

A petition for review of a denial of asylum is denied where an IJ's decision not to credit Albanian petitioner's claims of persecution was reasonable, and his credibility assessment was based on specific and cogent reasons.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/27/2006
• Published 11/27/2006

Judges

• WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge., Before WOLLMAN, BOWMAN, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Rekha Sharma-Crawford, argued, Sharma-Crawford Attorneys at Law, LLC, Overland Park, KS, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Joan E. Smiley, argued, Washington, DC, for Appellee.