United States Ninth Circuit

Ethiopian petitioner's failure to report the rape in her asylum interview and application does not support the IJ's adverse credibility finding. Remanded for a determination of whether her past persecution was atrocious, such that it warrants a grant of asylum.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/01/2004
• Decided 05/03/2004
• Published 05/03/2004

Judges

• GOODWIN, Circuit Judge:, Before GOODWIN, PREGERSON, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sandra A. Ronald, Calabasas, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Virginia M. Lum, Janice K. Redfern, Attorneys, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.