Legal Opinion
Jezierski v. Mukasey
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 10, 2008No. 07-3569PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The petitioner asked the Board of Immigration Appeals to reopen her removal proceeding on the ground that she had received ineffective assistance of counsel. The Board refused, finding that she had not shown that the failures of her counsel of which she complained would have led to a different result; in other words, she had failed to prove “prejudice.” We must decide whether we have jurisdiction to review the denial of her motion.
Our recent decisions in Zamora-Mallari v. Mukasey, 514 F.3d 679, 694 (7th Cir.2008); Kucana v. Mukasey, 533 F.3d 534 (7th Cir.2008), and Huang…
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