RIVERA-COCA v. LYNCH

No. 16-1115.

844 F.3d 374 (2016)

German Donaldo RIVERA-COCA, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

December 30, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ilana Etkin Greenstein , Boston, MA, and Macias & Greenstein, LLC on brief for petitioner.

Benjamin C. Mizer , Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Eric W. Marsteller , Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, Rachel L. Browning and Juria L. Jones , Trial Attorneys, Office of Immigration Litigation, on brief for respondent.

Before Kayatta, Selya and Barron, Circuit Judges.


The petitioner, German Donaldo Rivera-Coca, is a Honduran national. He seeks judicial review of a final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), which denied his application for asylum and withholding of removal. Concluding, as we do, that the BIA's order is supported by substantial evidence, we deny the petition.<...

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