SOTO-SOTO v. GARLAND

No. 20-70587.

1 F.4th 655 (2021)

Delfina SOTO-SOTO, Petitioner v. Merrick B. GARLAND, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed June 11, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hector A. Vega-Reyes (argued), Public Defender's Office, San Francisco, California, for Petitioner.

Jeff Beelaert (argued) and Virginia Lum , Trial Attorneys; Justin Markel , Senior Litigation Counsel; Ethan P. Davis , Acting Assistant Attorney General; Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Respondent.

Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge Wallace


OPINION

Petitioner Delfina Soto-Soto was brutally tortured by Mexican state police until she confessed to the kidnap and murder of five-year-old Bernardino Bravo Gomez. After the Mexican trial court dismissed the charges against her due to lack of evidence of the crimes charged, she fled to the United States. Mexican...

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