United States Ninth Circuit

Petition for review of a denial of Cambodian petitioners' applications for asylum and related relief is granted where: 1) petitioner's acts of opening an assigned cell door prior to interrogation as a prison guard decades ago did not assist in the persecution of others; and 2) the IJ had found that petitioner had established both past persecution and a well-founded fear of future persecution.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/17/2007
• Decided 08/13/2007
• Published 08/13/2007

Judges

• BETTY B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:, Before B. FLETCHER, EUGENE E. SILER, JR., and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Emmanuel Enyinwa, Law Offices of Emmanuel Enyinwa, San Francisco, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Manuel A. Palau, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, D.C., for the respondent-appellee.