United States Ninth Circuit

In a petition for review of the BIA's decision affirming an immigration judge's denial of petitioner's applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture, the petition is granted where an Immigration Judge, who presides over the same petitioner's bond hearing and removal hearing, may not use her notes from the unrecorded bond hearing in reaching her decision in the removal hearing.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/01/2010
• Decided 04/14/2010
• Published 04/14/2010

Judges

• Before BETTY B. FLETCHER, HARRY PREGERSON, and SUSAN P. GRABER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Josh Chatten-Brown and Carmen Chavez, Casa Cornelia Law Center, San Diego, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Melody K. Eaton and Molly L. DeBusschere, U.S. Department of Justice Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.