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LOPEZ ORDONEZ v. BARR

No. 18-2469.

956 F.3d 238 (2020)

Hector Daniel LOPEZ ORDONEZ, a/k/a Hector Lopez Ordonez, Petitioner, v. William P. BARR, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: April 16, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Samuel Batiste Hartzell , WOMBLE BOND DICKINSON (US) LLP, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Petitioner. John Beadle Holt , UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Respondent. ON BRIEF: Ripley E. Rand , Rebecca C. Fleishman , WOMBLE BOND DICKINSON (US) LLP, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Petitioner. Joseph H. Hunt , Assistant Attorney General, Claire L. Workman , Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Petition for review granted; vacated and remanded by published opinion. Chief Judge Gregory wrote the opinion, in which Judge Wilkinson and Judge Wynn joined.

Hector Daniel Lopez Ordonez was conscripted into the Guatemalan military when he was 15 years old. As part of the G-2 intelligence unit, Lopez Ordonez was ordered—and repeatedly refused—to torture and kill people. After a particularly horrific incident in which Lopez Ordonez refused to murder a five-month-old...

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