Legal Opinion

Predrag Vukmirovic v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided April 5, 2004No. 02-72110PublishedCited by 70 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

THOMAS, Circuit Judge:

Vukmirovic petitions for review from the denial of his application for asylum and withholding of removal, his motion to reopen due to ineffective assistance of counsel, and his motion to reopen for relief under the Convention Against Torture. We grant the petition for review.

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Predrag Vukmirovic is a Bosnian Serb from Bosnia-Herzegovina. In 1990, before the war in former Yugoslavia broke out on a full scale, Vukmirovic joined a chekne in Serbia, which he describes as an anti-communist group committed to the tenets of the Serbian Orthodox religion formed to defend his…

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