Legal Opinion
Torres v. Mukasey
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 23, 2008No. 08-1614PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Pedro Flores Torres, a native and citizen of Honduras, seeks asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture. Torres claims that he was persecuted while a soldier in the Honduran army because of his membership in a social group — namely, his family, which included four older brothers, three of whom were military deserters. Torres asserts that he was tortured and abused as punishment for his brothers’ actions. On May 31, 2006, Immigration Judge Carlos Cuevas declined Torres’s primary requests for asylum, withholding of removal, and…
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