KEO v. ASHCROFT

No. 02-2401.

341 F.3d 57 (2003)

Savry KEO, Petitioner, v. John D. ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 22, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin J. McNulty was on brief for petitioner.

Russell J. Verby, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and David V. Bernal, Assistant Director, were on brief for respondent.

Before LYNCH, LIPEZ and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.


LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner Savry Keo seeks review of the denial of his application for asylum and withholding of deportation. Keo entered the United States on a visa in 1997 to visit family. Several months later, Keo applied for asylum with the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), claiming he feared persecution in light of a violent coup d'état that had taken place in his native Cambodia. After a hearing, an Immigration Judge (IJ) denied Keo's...

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