Loho

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

LIEKE LOHO, 

Petitioner, No. 04-73136 v.  Agency No.

A95-178-821

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

Argued and Submitted March 5, 2008—Pasadena, California

Filed July 8, 2008

Before: John R. Gibson,* Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, and Susan P. Graber, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge O’Scannlain

*The Honorable John R. Gibson, Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, sitting by designation. COUNSEL

Joseph S. Porta, Esq., Law Offices of Cohen, Porta & Kim, Los Angeles, California, argued the cause for the petitioner and was on the briefs.

Anthony Norwood, Attorney, Department of Justice, Wash- ington, D.C., argued the cause for the respondent and was on the briefs; Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Terri J. Scadron, Mark L. Gross, Gregory B. Friel, and Christopher C. Wang, Attorneys, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., were on the briefs. 8166 …