Antipas Konou v. Eric Holder, Jr.

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• holding that the BIA’s interpretation of the documentary evidence in support of a CAT claim is entitled to deference
• holding the petitioner’s circumstances changed because he was no longer a child but “a self[-]sufficient homosexual adult”
• noting that “a State Department Report alone can . . . serve to outweigh an applicant’s evidence of a probability of torture,” including credible evidence of his past torture so long as the IJ provides an “individualized analysis”
• observing that the substantial evidence standard applies to CAT protection determinations
• applying abuse of discretion standard to determination of whether an alien was convicted of a particularly serious crime
• listing factors to consider in determining whether a crime is particularly serious and finding no abuse of discretion in the particularly serious crime determination

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).