KAWEESA v. ASHCROFT

No. CIV.A.04-10513-WGY.

345 F.Supp.2d 79 (2004)

Juliette KAWEESA, Petitioner, v. John D. ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Bruce Chadbourne, Interim Field Director for Detention and Removal, Boston Field Office, Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Kathleen M. Dennehy, Acting Commissioner, Massachusetts Dep't of Corrections, and the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Respondents.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

November 18, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth Broderick, Lowell, MA, for Juliette Nalubwama Kaweesa, Petitioner.

Alexandra F. Dufresne, Boston College Immigration and Asylum Project, Newton, MA, for Juliette Nalubwama Kaweesa, Petitioner.

Mark J. Grady, United States Attorney's Office, Boston, MA, for Bruce Chadbourne, John D. Ashcroft, Kathleen M. Dennehy, Respondents.

Daniel Kanstroom, Law Office of Daniel Kanstroom, Somerville, MA, for Juliette Nalubwama Kaweesa, Petitioner.

Ara H. Margosian, Law Offices of Ara H. Margosian, P.C., Watertown, MA, for Juliette Nalubwama Kaweesa, Petitioner.

Mark E. Pelosky, The Law Office of Mark E. Pelosky, Chelsea, MA, for Juliette Nalubwama Kaweesa, Petitioner.


MEMORANDUM

YOUNG, Chief Judge.

Habeas petitioner Juliette Kaweesa ("Kaweesa") seeks review of an order of removal entered in absentia, and of the refusals of the hearing officer and the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") to reopen her case and to consider her for asylum or for withholding of removal under the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 1 ("Convention...

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