Foday Brima Koroma v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

83 F.3d 427 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. Foday Brima KOROMA, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent. No. 94-70686. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Feb. 15, 1996. Decided April 26, 1996. Before: BOOCHEVER, HALL, and FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM * 2 Foday Brima Koroma, a native of Sierra Leone, applied for political asylum after an Immigration Judge ("IJ") found him deportable as an alien convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude (conspiracy to defraud and defrauding the government). Koroma's counsel withdrew before the asylum hearing, and Koroma was unrepresented at the hearing. The IJ found that Koroma had not established a well-founded fear of persecution, nor a clear probability of persecution. The Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") affirmed, finding that Koroma was not credible, and even if his testimony were believed, he had not shown a well-founded fear of persecution.…