United States Ninth Circuit

Petition for review of a BIA order denying Guatemalan petitioner's application for cancellation of removal is granted where petitioner was denied his statutory right to counsel.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/12/2007
• Decided 12/06/2007
• Published 12/06/2007

Judges

• PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:, Before:  HARRY PREGERSON, RONALD M. GOULD, and RICHARD R. CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mario Acosta Jr., and Elsa Martinez, Martinez Goldsby & Associates, Los Angeles, CA, for the petitioner., Philip Lewis, Matthew Kline, Randall Whattoff, and Victor Jih, O'Melveny & Myers, Los Angeles, CA, pro bono amicus curiae counsel for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Carol Federighi, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.