United States Eighth Circuit

Petition for review of an order denying petitioner's application for asylum and related relief is denied where: 1) the IJ offered an adequate explanation for a credibility assessment and the record supported an adverse credibility determination; 2) the IJ did not err in determining that petitioner did not meet the well-founded fear of persecution standard for asylum; and 3) petitioner did not meet the burden of demonstrating that he would suffer torture in his home country for any reasons other than those advanced in his discredited asylum and withholding claims.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/07/2008
• Published 04/07/2008

Judges

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

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Herbert Igbanugo, argued, Minneapolis, MN, Dyan Williams, on the brief, for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Brianne Whelan Cohen, USDOJ, OIL, argued, Washington, DC, for Appellee.