United States Eighth Circuit

In an asylum case claiming that if petitioner were returned to his native Mexico he would be harmed or killed in retaliation for his work as an informant for U.S. agents, a decision reversing a grant of CAT relief and ordering him removed is vacated and remanded where the BIA did not appear to apply the proper standard of review and engaged in its own factfinding.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/23/2007
• Published 02/23/2007

Judges

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

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jodilyn M. Goodwin, argued, Harlingen, Texas, for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Anthony C. Payne, argued, Washington, D.C. (Peter D. Keisler and David V. Bernal, on the brief), for respondent.