United States Ninth Circuit

In a petition for writ of habeas corpus challenging a final order of removal on grounds that the government had promised petitioner permanent resident status in exchange for cooperation in a drug prosecution, the petition is denied where plaintiff failed to make out colorable claims for either a due process violation based on estoppel principles or a substantive due process violation under the state-created danger doctrine.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/08/2007
• Decided 07/26/2007
• Published 07/26/2007

Judges

• THOMAS, Circuit Judge:, Before:  MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, SIDNEY R. THOMAS, and RICHARD R. CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Nicomedes E. Suriel, Phoenix, AR, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, David V. Bernal, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, Andrew C. MacLachlan, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.