LAZARO v. MUKASEY

No. 05-70165.

527 F.3d 977 (2008)

Dionisio LAZARO, Petitioner, v. Michael B. MUKASEY, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed June 4, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Todd Bennett, El Cerrito, CA, for the petitioner.

Jeffrey J. Bernstein (argued) and Melissa Neiman-Kelting (on the brief), Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, for the respondent.

Before: WILLIAM C. CANBY, JR. and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges, and STEPHEN G. LARSON, District Judge.


LARSON, District Judge:

Dionisio Lazaro, a native and citizen of the Philippines, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge's ("IJ") removal order, which denied his application for withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(D) and we review de novo questions of...

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