Chehade Dib Lichaa Al Khouri v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States

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• holding that the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause demands “that removal hearings be fundamentally fair”
• IJ must fully develop the record but is not required to act as alien’s advocate or lawyer
• “It would be nonsensical to recognize a constitutional entitlement to a continuance based on counsel’s withdrawal when petitioners themselves are responsible for the withdrawal.”
• “[W]hen an alien appears pro se, it is the IJ’s duty to fully develop the record.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[U]nlike the trial judge, an administrative judge has a well established affirmative duty to develop the record.”
• “[A]liens are free to waive their statutory right to counsel . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).