Legal Opinion
Seemab Fatima Shah Khurram Aijaz v. Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided April 28, 2006No. 04-3607, 05-1122PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
BARRY, Circuit Judge.
I. Introduction
Petitioner’s father was killed in cold blood, and the government concedes that he is dead. That murder — and what preceded and followed it — is the event on which her application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”) was almost exclusively based. In his apparent zeal to deny relief to petitioner, however, the Immigration Judge, Donald V. Ferlise, came to the conclusion that the father is alive.
[T]he Court is strongly persuaded and tends to believe that the respondent’s father is…
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