OFOSU v. McELROY

No. 669, Docket 96-2419.

98 F.3d 694 (1996)

Kwadwo OFOSU, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Edward McELROY, Acting District Director of the New York District of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 22, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bradford H. Sewell, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City, for Petitioner-Appellant.

F. James Loprest, Jr., Special Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of New York, New York City, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before: MINER, JACOBS, and PARKER, Circuit Judges.


JACOBS, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner-appellant Kwadwo Ofosu filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, pursuant to Immigration and Naturalization Act ("INA") § 106(b), 8 U.S.C. § 1105a(b), and 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a July 25, 1994 exclusion order issued by the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA"). The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Sotomayor, J.) denied Ofosu's petition. Ofosu has moved in this Court...

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