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HAMID v. GONZALES

Nos. 04-1600, 04-2013.

417 F.3d 642 (2005)

Akram Qassim HAMID, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 31, 2005.

Amended August 2, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence S. Schaner (argued), Jenner & Block, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner.

Karen Lundgren, Department of Homeland Security, Office of the District Counsel, Chicago, IL, Norah Ascoli Schwarz (argued), Donald E. Keener, Margaret J. Perry, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before COFFEY, MANION, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

COFFEY, Circuit Judge.

Akram Hamid, a Palestinian resident of Syria, pled guilty to charges of conspiring to defraud and to steal. When deportation proceedings were instituted against him, Hamid asked for withholding of removal, 8 U.S.C. § 1231(b)(3), and relief under the United Nations Convention Against Torture ("CAT"), 1465 U.N.T.S. 85, art. 3 (1984), claiming that he would be persecuted and tortured if returned to Syria. The immigration judge ("IJ") denied...

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