Case Name: Jemmott Oscar BUCKLEY, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2005-05-12
Citations: 128 F. App'x 660
Docket Number: No. 03-72634
Parties: Jemmott Oscar BUCKLEY, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 128
Pages: 660–661

Head Matter:
Jemmott Oscar BUCKLEY, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 03-72634.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted May 9, 2005.
Decided May 12, 2005.
Elsa I. Martinez, Martinez Goldsby & Associates, Los Angeles, CA, for Petitioner.
Regional Counsel, Western Region, La-guna Niguel, CA, Ronald E. Lefevre, Chief Counsel, Office of the District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, Anthony P. Nicastro, Esq., U.S. Department of Justice Civil Div./Office of Immigration Lit., Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before: PREGERSON, CANBY, and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.
Alberto R. Gonzales is substituted for his predecessor, John Ashcroft, as Attorney General of the United States, pursuant to Fed. R.App. P. 43(c)(2).
The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Jemmott Oscar Buckley, a native and citizen of Panama, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") June 18, 2003 denial of his motion to reopen deportation proceedings and reconsider its decision denying his first motion to reopen deportation proceedings. We have jurisdiction under former 8 U.S.C. § 1105a(a). See Kalaw v. INS, 133 F.3d 1147, 1150 (9th Cir.1997). We review the denial of a motion to reconsider or reopen for an abuse of discretion. See Iturribarria v. INS, 321 F.3d 889, 894 (9th Cir.2003). We deny in part and dismiss in part the petition for review.
The BIA properly denied Buckley's motion to reconsider its decision denying his motion to reopen due to ineffective assistance of counsel, because Buckley failed to show the BIA erred in concluding that he was not prejudiced by his counsel's conduct. See id. at 901-03. Buckley has failed to challenge any other aspect of the BIA's June 18, 2003 decision, and therefore has waived the issues. See Martinez-Serrano v. INS, 94 F.3d 1256, 1259 (9th Cir.1996). Furthermore, we lack jurisdiction to review the BIA's denial of his request to reopen his deportation proceedings sua sponte. See Abassi v. INS, 305 F.3d 1028, 1032 (9th Cir.2002).
To the extent Buckley challenges the BIA's denial of his first motion to reopen or the BIA's affirmance of the IJ's denial of suspension of deportation, we dismiss the petition because Buckley did not timely seek review of those decisions. See Martinez-Serrano, 94 F.3d at 1258.
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED in part; DISMISSED in part.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.