BETOUCHE v. ASHCROFT

No. 02-2518.

357 F.3d 147 (2004)

Selim BETOUCHE, Petitioner, v. John D. ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 12, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Saher Joseph Macarius was on brief for petitioner.

Joshua E. Braunstein, Attorney, Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, and Emily Anne Radford, Assistant Director, were on brief for respondent.

Before TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge, CYR, Senior Circuit Judge, and OBERDORFER, Senior District Judge.


CYR, Senior Circuit Judge.

Petitioner-appellant Selim Betouche challenges various rulings by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) declining to reopen the proceedings relating to his asylum application, in which he claimed that he received ineffective assistance of counsel and that conditions in his native Algeria have deteriorated since the entry of the final deportation order. We affirm.

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BACKGROUND

Betouche, a citizen and native...

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