MARIKO v. HOLDER

No. 09-1464.

632 F.3d 1 (2011)

Ya ya Deen MARIKO and Tiranke Kaba, Petitioners, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 24, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randy Olen and Robert D. Watt, Jr. on brief for petitioners.

Tony West , Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Jennifer Paisner-Williams , Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, and Yedidya Cohen , Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, on brief for respondent.

Before LIPEZ, SELYA and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

The lead petitioner, Ya Ya Deen Mariko, and the derivative petitioner, Tiranke Kaba, are husband and wife.1 Both of them are Guinean nationals. They seek review of a final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), which affirmed a decision of an immigration judge (IJ) denying withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). They also seek review of the BIA's denial of their...

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