ZAROUITE v. GONZALES

Nos. 04-1541, 04-2185.

424 F.3d 60 (2005)

Abdelhafid ZAROUITE, Petitioner v. Alberto GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided September 16, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeremiah Friedman with whom Ilana Greenstein, Harvey Kaplan, Maureen O'Sullivan and Kaplan, O'Sullivan & Friedman, LLP, were on brief for petitioner.

Joanne E. Johnson, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Department of Justice, with whom Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Papu Sandhu, Senior Litigation Counsel, were on brief for respondent.

Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, CYR, Senior Circuit Judge, and HOWARD, Circuit Judge.


BOUDIN, Chief Judge.

Abdelhafid Zarouite, a citizen of Morocco, entered the United States without proper documentation in June 2000. Removal proceedings began against him in the same month, 8 U.S.C. §§ 1182(a)(6)(A)(i), (a)(7)(A)(i) (2000), during which he conceded removability but sought asylum on grounds of persecution. 8 U.S.C. § 1158(b)(1) (2000); 8 C.F.R. § 208.13(b) (2005). The pertinent background events, and the allegations made by Zarouite...

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