Legal Opinion
Luz Marina Silva v. U.S. Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 5, 2006No. 19-10525PublishedCited by 155 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
The main issue presented in this petition is whether evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the fact findings of the Immigration Judge, that two unknown persons for unknown reasons fired shots at the car of Luz Marina Silva, a Colombian citizen, soon after she had received a single written threat about her political activity and several threatening, but not political, telephone calls, compelled the conclusion that Silva suffered past persecution or has a well-founded fear of future persecution on account of her political opinion. Silva applied for asylum and…
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