A-M-R-C

Syllabus

The Attorney General referred the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals to himself for review of issues relating to the effect of timing of referral whether the Board applied the correct legal standard and properly exercised its discretion in deciding issues related to the serious nonpolitical crime bar and the persecutor bar and whether the Board applied the correct standard for determining whether a respondent's in absentia trial suffered from due process problems.