Efe v. Ashcroft

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that killing a police officer at a political demonstration was a serious nonpolitical crime because the conduct was disproportionate to the political objectives
• explaining that CAT protection is not triggered by persecution but, rather, must meet the higher bar of torture
• noting that courts afford “great deference to an immigration judge’s decisions concerning an alien’s credibility”
• concluding because petitioner failed to meet asylum standard, petitioner also failed to meet withholding standard
• noting that unlike asylum or withholding of removal claims, “CAT does not require persecution, but the higher bar of torture”
• stating that the “CAT does not require persecution, but the higher bar of torture”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).