United States Ninth Circuit

Evidence that asylum petitioner had close relatives in military and was the target of forced recruitment by government rebels is sufficient to establish persecution on account of imputed political opinion.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/10/2001
• Published 09/10/2001

Judges

• Before SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, LAY, and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas P. Brown, Esq., Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe, Scott Wiener, San Francisco, CA, for Petitioner., Fredy Orlando Ventura, pro se, Alameda, CA, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Regional Counsel, Immigration & Naturalization Service, Laguna Niguel, CA, Ronald E. LeFevre, Chief Legal Officer, Immigration & Naturalization Service, San Francisco, CA, Donald E. Keener, Esq., Washington, DC, John C. Cunningham, Esq., Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., James A. Hunolt, Esq., Richard M. Evans, Esq., David M. McConnell, Washington, DC, Michael J. Dougherty, for Respondent.