MORRIS v. SESSIONS

No. 17-1518.

891 F.3d 42 (2018)

Nigel Hopeton MORRIS, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS, III, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

May 30, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ilana Etkin Greenstein, Boston, MA, with whom Macias & Greenstein, LLC, was on brief for petitioner.

Gregory A. Pennington, Jr., with whom Chad A. Readler, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Carl H. McIntyre, Assistant Director, and Brooke M. Maurer, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, were on brief for respondent.

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


This case concerns Nigel Hopeton Morris' petition for review of a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals ["BIA"] to deny his application for deferral of removal based on the protection to which he claims to be entitled under the United Nations Convention Against Torture ["CAT"]. We deny the petition.

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