Hugues Martine v. Loretta Lynch

Hugues Martine was ordered deported in November 2014 following a criminal conviction. The Immigration Judge (IJ) found, and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIÁ) affirmed, that Martine was not eligible for relief under the Convention Against .Torture (CAT). Martine filed the instant petition for review, arguing that the BIA erred by affirming the IJ, who applied an incorrect legal standard to his request for relief under the CAT. We dismiss Mar-tine’s petition for review.

I. Background

In 1993, when he was six or seven years old, Martine and his family fled Haiti and were admitted into the…