United States Ninth Circuit

In a petition for review of the denial of petitioner's application for asylum and withholding of removal, concluding that he failed to show that the Ghanaian government was unable or unwilling to protect him and, in the alternative, that he could safely relocate in his home country, the petition is granted where the BIA made numerous factual errors in its "unable or unwilling" analysis, ignoring evidence favorable to petitioner, misstating petitioner's testimony, and improperly treating as irrelevant police reports made by individuals other than petitioner.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/09/2010
• Decided 07/26/2010
• Published 07/26/2010

Judges

• Marsha S. Berzon

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James C. Daugherty, Jonathan Robbins