Legal Opinion
Jian Yun Zheng v. United States Department of Justice, John Ashcroft, United States Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 20, 2005No. Docket 02-4711PublishedCited by 129 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge.
Jian Yun Zheng, a native and citizen of the People’s Republic of China (“China”), petitions this Court for review of an October 11, 2002, order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) denying her motion to reopen her deportation proceedings. In her petition, Zheng argues, as she did in her motion to the BIA, that she was prejudiced in her prior appeal before the BIA by her attorney’s ineffective assistance — namely, her attorney’s failure to file an appellate brief. Because we hold that the BIA did not abuse its discretion in rejecting petitioner’s…
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