CASTRO v. HOLDER

Docket No. 08-4820-ag.

597 F.3d 93 (2010)

Milton Ronaldo Rodas CASTRO, Maria Luisa Carranza-Fuentes, Petitioners, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., United States Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: March 2, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ann Pilsbury (Miwako Dai and Heather Y. Axford, on the brief), Central American Legal Assistance, Brooklyn, NY, for Petitioners.

Jamie M. Dowd (Michael F. Hertz, Acting Assistant Attorney General Civil Division, and Ernesto H. Molina, Jr., Assistant Director, on the brief), Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before: LEVAL, HALL and LYNCH, Circuit Judges.


GERARD E. LYNCH, Circuit Judge:

In September 2005, Milton Ronaldo Rodas Castro ("Rodas"), a native and citizen of Guatemala and a former police officer there, applied for asylum and withholding of removal under the Immigration and Nationality Act ("INA"), 8 U.S.C. §§ 1158, 1231(b)(3), and for relief under the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment ("CAT"), Dec. 10, 1984, S. Treaty Doc. No....

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