United States Ninth Circuit

Knowing reliance upon the advice of a non-attorney cannot support a claim for ineffective assistance of counsel in a removal proceeding. Petition for review of a BIA decision denying Mexican natives' motion to reopen their deportation proceedings on the ground of ineffective assistance of counsel is affirmed over a claim that their deportation proceedings warrant reopening because their due process rights were violated by the deficient assistance of an immigration consultant.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/30/2008
• Published 04/30/2008

Judges

• CALLAHAN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  STEPHEN S. TROTT, RICHARD R. CLIFTON, and CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Meredith R. Brown of Glendale, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Richard M. Evens, and Paul Fiorino, of Washington, DC, for the respondent.