Corey Lamar Winters v. State of Indiana

How courts have described this case

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• holding that proposed social group of “Mexican wealthy business owners who do not comply with extortion attempts” is not cognizable
• holding that proposed social group of Mexican wealthy business owners who refused extortion demands lacked particularity
• concluding that “being a wealthy business owner is not an immutable characteristic because it is not fundamental to an individual’s identity”
• concluding that “being a wealthy business owner is not an immutable characteristic because it is not fundamental to an individual’s identity”
• holding that being a business owner “is not an immutable characteristic because it is not fundamental to an individual’s identity”
• holding that gang attacks against anyone who can pay regardless of the reason for the victim’s wealth fail to establish the required nexus to a protected ground

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).