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SOMAKOKO v. GONZALES

No. 04-1582.

399 F.3d 882 (2005)

Zita Marie Valerie SOMAKOKO, also known as Zita Marie Valerie Camara, Petitioner, v. Alberto GONZALES, Attorney General of the United States of America, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: March 1, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin Casper, argued, West St. Paul, Minnesota, for appellant.

Mark S. Davies, argued, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Michael S. Raab, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for appellee.

Before LOKEN, Chief Judge, MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD and RILEY, Circuit Judges.

LOKEN, Chief Judge.

Zita Marie Valerie Somakoko is a thirty-one-year-old native and citizen of the Central African Republic. She grew up in the Emperor's palace in Bangui, Central African Republic, because her parents were related to Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa and to Dada Dacko, who overthrew Bokassa in 1979. The family scattered in 1984 when Dacko was removed from power. Ms. Somakoko and three siblings settled with their father in Guinea, where she lived without...

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