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STANKOVIC v. I.N.S.

No. 95-3727.

94 F.3d 1117 (1996)

Rajko STANKOVIC, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 5, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Y. Judd Azulay, Stephen D. Berman (argued), Azulay & Azulay, Chicago, IL, for petitioner.

Michael J. Shepard, Office of the U.S. Atty., Crim. Div., Chicago, IL, Carl H. McIntyre, Jr., Nelda Reyna (argued), Dept. of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Janet Reno, U.S. Atty. Gen., Office of the U.S. Atty. Gen., Washington, DC, Samuel Der-Yeghiayan, I.N.S., Chicago, IL, David M. McConnell, Stephen W. Funk, Marion E. Guyton, Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, David J. Kline, Dept. of Justice, Office of Immigration, Washington, DC, for respondent.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and CUDAHY and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.

CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.

When threatened with deportation for overstaying his visa, Rajko Stankovic applied for asylum in the United States. He claimed that he had fled his homeland, Serbia, because of political persecution and that this persecution would be renewed if he were deported there. An immigration judge did not believe his assertions of past persecution and therefore denied the application. The Board of Immigration Appeals affirmed this decision, but Stankovic...

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