SANON v. I.N.S.

No. 94-2219.

52 F.3d 648 (1995)

Fidele SANON, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 11, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elpidio Villarreal, Ronald S. Bell (argued), Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, IL, for petitioner.

Francesco Isgro, Philemina Jones, Kristen A. Giuffreda (argued), Dept. of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Samuel Der-Yeghiayan, Christine Young, I.N.S., James B. Burns, Office of the U.S. Atty., Chicago, IL, for respondent.

Before CUMMINGS and FLAUM, Circuit Judges, and PAINE, District Judge.


FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner Fidele Sanon appeals from a denial of asylum and withholding of deportation by the Board of Immigration Appeals. Because the record before us does not reflect that the Board adequately appraised itself of Sanon's case, we vacate the Board's decision and remand for further proceedings.

I.

Fidele Sanon was born on December 13, 1960, in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso (then Upper Volta), a former French colony in West Africa...

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