HERNANDEZ-CARTAGENA v. BARR

No. 19-1823.

977 F.3d 316 (2020)

Sandra Marleny HERNANDEZ-CARTAGENA, Petitioner, v. William P. BARR, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: October 14, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Aaron R. Caruso , ABOD & CARUSO, LLC, Gaithersburg, Maryland, for Petitioner. Joseph H. Hunt , Assistant Attorney General, Bernard A. Joseph , Senior Litigation Counsel, Enitan O. Otunla , Trial Attorney, Civil Division, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Petition for review granted; reversed and remanded with instructions by published opinion. Judge Thacker wrote the opinion, in which Judge Richardson and Judge Quattlebaum joined.


Sandra Marleny Hernandez-Cartagena ("Petitioner") petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") affirming the immigration judge ("IJ")'s denial of her application for asylum. Because the IJ and BIA abused their discretion by failing to consider important evidence and reaching conclusions that...

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