Legal Opinion

Rocio Henriquez-Rivas v. Eric Holder, Jr.

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided February 13, 2013No. 09-71571PublishedCited by 263 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by Judge BEA; Concurrence by Judge McKEOWN; Dissent by Chief Judge KOZINSKI.

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BEA, Circuit Judge:

Rocío Brenda Henriquez-Rivas petitions for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) sustaining the government’s appeal of an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) grant of asylum, and denying her applications for withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture. Henriquez-Rivas claims she is entitled to asylum because, as a person who testified in a criminal trial against members of a gang who killed her father in El Salvador, she is a member of…

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3Cited by263 opinions

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