MORALES v. I.N.S.

No. 98-1719.

208 F.3d 323 (2000)

Juan Antonio MORALES, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 5, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maureen O'Sullivan, with whom Harvey Kaplan, Ilana Greenstein, Jeremiah Friedman and Kaplan, O'Sullivan & Friedman, LLP, were on brief for petitioner.

Brenda M. O'Malley, Attorney, with whom David W. Ogden, Acting Assistant Attorney General, and Terri J. Scadron, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, were on brief for respondent.

Before BOUDIN, Circuit Judge, BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge, and STAHL, Circuit Judge.


BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge.

We granted Juan Antonio Morales' petition for rehearing because in our original opinion, issued on October 19, 1999, we misstated in part the burden of proof required to prove a well-founded fear of persecution by applicants if they are deported to their homeland. We stated:

To prove a well-founded fear of persecution, the "applicant's fear must be both genuine and objectively reasonable." [Aguilar-Solis v. INS,

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