GONZALEZ-RIVAS v. GARLAND

No. 21-3364.

53 F.4th 1129 (2022)

Hector GONZALEZ-RIVAS, Petitioner v. Merrick B. GARLAND, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: November 23, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the petitioner and appeared on the brief was William Michael Sharma-Crawford, of Kansas City, MO. The following attorney also appeared on the brief of the petitioner: Lucy Ann Betteridge, of Kansas City, MO.

Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the respondent and appeared on the brief was Gregory Michael Kelch, of Washington, DC.

Before GRUENDER, SHEPHERD, and ERICKSON, Circuit Judges.


Hector Gonzalez-Rivas, a native and citizen of Guatemala, applied for cancellation of removal pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(b)(1). He has three children, who were 19, 10, and 5 years old at the time of the merits hearing in April 2017. The immigration judge denied Gonzalez-Rivas's application. The Board of Immigration...

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