Legal Opinion
Akram Qassim Hamid v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 2, 2005No. 04-1600, 04-2013PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFEY, Circuit Judge.
Akram Hamid, a Palestinian resident of Syria, pled guilty to charges of conspiring to defraud and to steal. When deportation proceedings were instituted against him, Hamid asked for withholding of removal, 8 U.S.C. § 1231(b)(3), and relief under the United Nations Convention Against Torture (“CAT”), 1465 U.N.T.S." 85, art. 3 (1984), claiming that he would be persecuted and tortured if returned to Syria. The immigration judge (“IJ”) denied relief, finding that persecution and torture were unlikely. Hamid now claims not only that the IJ’s decision was wrong, but that the…
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