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WAWERU v. GONZALES

No. 05-1100.

437 F.3d 199 (2006)

Stephen WAWERU, Petitioner, v. Alberto GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 13, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Thomas P. Colantuono, United States Attorney, and Aixa Maldonado-Quiñones, Assistant United States Attorney, on brief for respondent.

Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, SELYA, Circuit Judge, and STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge.

BOUDIN, Chief Judge.

Stephen Waweru, a Kenyan national born in 1972, immigrated to the United States on a valid student visa in September 1992. He applied for asylum in November 1993 and was placed into deportation proceedings in December 1996. Waweru conceded deportability but sought asylum and withholding of removal on the grounds that he had previously suffered persecution in Kenya because of his political beliefs and reasonably feared future persecution should...

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