STANCIU v. HOLDER

No. 10-2165.

659 F.3d 203 (2011)

Marius STANCIU, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 25, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eman H. Jajonie-Daman , Anthony J. McEachern and Amer S. Hakim & Associates, P.C. on brief for petitioner.

John D. Williams , Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Tony West , Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Jennifer P. Levings , Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, on brief for respondent.

Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, BOUDIN and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.


BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.

Marius Stanciu, a native and citizen of Romania, has petitioned for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA"). See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(1) (2006). The BIA affirmed the denial by the immigration judge ("IJ") of Stanciu's applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture ("CAT"). Stanciu is ethnically Romani (colloquially a "Gypsy"), and his applications rested on...

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