Plasencia Ayala v. Mukasey

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

REYNALDO PLASENCIA-AYALA, 

Petitioner, No. 06-73728 v.  Agency No.

A91-966-521

MICHAEL B. MUKASEY,* Attorney General, OPINION Respondent.  On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals

Argued and Submitted December 3, 2007—San Francisco, California

Filed February 7, 2008

Before: Jerome Farris, Robert R. Beezer, and Sidney R. Thomas, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Thomas

*Michael B. Mukasey is substituted for his predecessor, Alberto R. Gonzales, as Attorney General of the United States, pursuant to Fed. R. App. P. 43(c)(2).

1767 1770 PLASENCIA-AYALA v. MUKASEY

COUNSEL

Bryan M. Westhoff, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & Macrae, Chi- cago, Illinois, argued the cause for the petitioner; William J.T. Brown, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & Macrae, New York, New York, was on the brief.

Liza S. Murcia, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Divi- sion, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., argued the cause for the respondent; Peter D. Keisler, Assis- tant Attorney General, Civil…