MORALES-MORALES v. SESSIONS

No. 16-1774.

857 F.3d 130 (2017)

Mario Gilberto MORALES-MORALES, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS, III, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

May 22, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Charles Maroun, Jr. , Methuen, MA, for petitioner.

Allison Frayer , Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Benjamin C. Mizer , Principal Deputy Acting Assistant Attorney General, M. Jocelyn Lopez Wright , Acting Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, and Melissa Neiman-Kelting , Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, for respondent.

Before Howard, Chief Judge, Thompson and Barron, Circuit Judges.


Mario Gilberto Morales-Morales ("Morales") petitions for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") denying Morales's requests for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture ("CAT"). We deny the petition.

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Morales is a citizen of Guatemala....

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