AFFUL v. ASHCROFT

No. 03-1569.

380 F.3d 1 (2004)

Mary Newman AFFUL, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, United States Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 6, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randall L. Johnson, with whom Johnson & Associates, P.C. was on brief, for petitioner.

Frances M. McLaughlin, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, with whom Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Linda S. Wendtland, Assistant Director, were on brief, for respondent.

Before TORRUELLA, LYNCH and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.


TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

Mary Newman Afful, a native and citizen of Ghana, petitions for relief from an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") affirming the Immigration Judge's decision. Afful argues that the BIA committed three reversible errors: (1) affirming the Immigration Judge's denial of her applications for political asylum and withholding of deportation; (2) affirming the Immigration Judge's denial of her...

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