AKINWANDE v. ASHCROFT

No. 03-1258.

380 F.3d 517 (2004)

Shola D. AKINWANDE, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 17, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randy Olen for petitioner.

Thankful T. Vanderstar, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, with whom Linda S. Wernery, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, and Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, were on brief, for respondent.

Before SELYA, LYNCH, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.


LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Shola Akinwande, of Nigeria, seeks review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' affirmance of an immigration judge's denial of his applications for adjustment of status and voluntary departure. The core of Akinwande's argument involves an issue of law about the conduct of the deportation proceedings. Specifically, Akinwande argues, under both the Due Process Clause and INS regulation 8 C.F.R. § 1003.25, that the IJ erred in permitting a witness...

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