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VELASQUEZ-VALENCIA v. I.N.S.

No. 00-1551.

244 F.3d 48 (2001)

Marvin VELASQUEZ-VALENCIA, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 30, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Heidi E. Harvey with whom Fish & Richardson, P.C. was on brief for petitioner.

Erin Albritton, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Department of Justice, with whom David W. Ogden, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Department of Justice, Richard M. Evans, Assistant Director, and Michael T. Dougherty, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Department of Justice, were on brief for respondent.

Before TORRUELLA, Chief Judge, BOUDIN and STAHL, Circuit Judges.

BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.

Marvin Velasquez-Valencia is a native and citizen of Guatemala who seeks political asylum in this country. In 1991, Velasquez (then aged 16) lived on a large plantation in Guatemala which his stepfather administered but did not own. During this period a guerilla organization, urging land redistribution, was engaged in a civil war with the government. That summer, an armed group of the guerillas entered Velasquez' home seeking supplies. When...

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