Case Name: Nestor Alberto PERDOMO, Petitioner, v. U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2007-10-02
Citations: 249 F. App'x 769
Docket Number: No. 06-12960
Parties: Nestor Alberto PERDOMO, Petitioner, v. U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 249
Pages: 769–770

Head Matter:
Nestor Alberto PERDOMO, Petitioner, v. U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL, Respondent.
No. 06-12960.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
Oct. 2, 2007.
Arturo Aponte-Pares, Carlos Berretea-ga, Alberto Guerrero Law Office, Orlando, FL, for Petitioner.
Susan Hollis Rothstein-Youakim, U.S. Attorney’s Office/Middle Dist. of FL, Tampa, FL, David V. Bernal, Anthony Cardozo Payne, USDOJ, Office of Immigration Litigation, John C. O’Quinn, Washington, DC, Michelle Ressler, Miami, FL, for Respondent.
Before ANDERSON and PRYOR, Circuit Judges, and VINING, District Judge.
Honorable Robert L. Vining, Jr., United States District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
After oral argument and careful consideration, we cannot conclude that Perdo-mo's petition should be granted. The Board of Immigration Appeals held, at least in an alternative holding, that petitioner's claims for relief failed because petitioner had failed to establish that he was a victim of past persecution on a protected ground. We need not address whether or not the single assault suffered by petitioner at the hands of FARC might have been sufficiently severe to rise to the level of persecution, had petitioner proved the protected ground aspect. We do conclude, however, that the record does not compel a result contrary to the finding of the BIA that petitioner failed to establish the protected ground element. The record does not compel a finding that FARC's assault on petitioner, when he rose to defend his wife, was based upon either petitioner's own political opinion, or an imputed political opinion attributed to petitioner by FARC.
With respect to petitioner's claim of a well founded fear of future persecution, we readily conclude that the record does not compel a conclusion contrary to that of the BIA, especially in light of petitioner's divorced status from his wife, who was the focus of FARC's attention.
PETITION DENIED.