MUN~OZ-MONSALVE v. MUKASEY

No. 08-1291.

551 F.3d 1 (2008)

Eduardo MUÑOZ-MONSALVE, Petitioner, v. Michael B. MUKASEY, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 12, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter J. Gleason, on brief, for petitioner.

Gregory G. Katsas, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Emily Anne Radford, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, and Vanessa O. Lefort, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, on brief, for respondent.

Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, SELYA and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

The petitioner, Eduardo Muñoz-Monsalve, sees due process violations at every twist and turn. We distill his wide-ranging array of arguments into three claims of error; namely: (i) that the immigration judge (IJ) failed to initiate a competency hearing: (ii) that the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) incorrectly affirmed the IJ's adverse credibility determination: and (iii) that the BIA adjudicated...

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