KEBEDE v. GONZALES

No. 06-2172.

481 F.3d 562 (2007)

Sara Kassa KEBEDE; Michael Tesfaye Yigezu, Petitioners, v. Alberto GONZALES, Attorney General of the United States of America, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: April 2, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth A. Holmes, Karam & Associates, Bloomington, MN, for Petitioners.

Scott Baniecke, U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service, Richard M. Evans, Thomas W. Hussey, Joan E. Smiley, Karen Drummond, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, DC, Lori Scialabba, U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review Falls Church, VA, for Respondent.

Before LOKEN, Chief Judge, MURPHY and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Sara Kassa Kebede entered the United States on an Ethiopian passport in July 2001 and applied for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT) on behalf of herself and her son, Michael Tesfaye Yigezu. After an evidentiary hearing, the Immigration Judge (IJ) denied all relief, finding that Kebede's testimony as to past persecution by the Ethiopian government was not credible and, even if credible, did not establish...

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