Ares Ruiz, Alfredo v. Departamento De Educacion

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• concluding that even when there is no evidence of bad faith on counsel’s part, “the onus [is] on counsel to provide an adequate reason for his failure to appear”
• holding that denial of counsel’s request for continuance and then proceeding with asylum hearing without counsel, where counsel requested continuance only two days before hearing and failed to explain his absence, was not an abuse of discretion
• concluding that petitioner’s right to counsel was not violated when, after denying counsel’s request for continuance two days earlier, counsel did not show up at removal hearing and proceedings went forward
• finding that there was no abuse of discretion in denying a continuance given the failure of the alien to obtain counsel
• holding that an IJ did not violate an alien’s statutory right to counsel because the “facial lack of merit” to the alien’s claim meant any violation made no difference in the result of the proceedings
• holding that denial of counsel’s request for continuance and then proceeding with asylum hearing without counsel, where counsel requested continuance only two days before hearing and failed to explain his absence, was not an abuse of discretion

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