United States Ninth Circuit

Inconsistencies regarding the number of times petitioner and family faced arrest and whether home country exiled dissidents are sufficient to support a finding of negative credibility in an asylum hearing.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/23/2001
• Published 07/23/2001

Judges

• WALLACE, Circuit Judge:, Before:  SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, WALLACE, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Elias Z. Shamieh, Esq., Shamiyeh and Shamieh, San Francisco, California, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Regional Counsel, Western Region, Immigration & Naturalization Service, Laguna Niguel, California, for the respondent., Ronald E. LeFevre, Chief Legal Officer, Immigration & Naturalization Service, San Francisco, California, for the respondent., Anthony W. Norwood, Esq. and Michael J. Dougherty, Esq., Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.