Legal Opinion
Passi v. Mukasey
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 23, 2008No. Docket 07-2102-agPublishedCited by 105 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KATZMANN, Circuit Judge:
Sylvestre Passi petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (BIA) April 19, 2007 order affirming Immigration Judge (IJ) Elizabeth A. Lamb’s denial of his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). The BIA assumed that Passi had testified credibly about an incident in which he was beaten into unconsciousness during a military raid, but concluded that country conditions had changed such that he no longer had an objectively reasonable fear of persecution. Because we find that the BIA could not have…
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