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· 7/28/2009

Marroquin-Ochoma v. Holder

Citations

  • 574 F.3d 574
  • 2009 WL 2225808

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that a general political motive underlying a gang’s actions is insufficient to show the gang believes resistance to those actions is based on an anti- gang political opinion
  • upholding determination that petitioner who received threats after refusing to join gang, without more, was not persecuted on account of an anti-gang political opinion
  • denying asylum to a petitioner who left Guatemala because gang members threatened and pressured her to join the gang
  • mere refusal to join gang, without more, does not compel finding that gang’s threats were on account of imputed political opinion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Murphy, Melloy, Shepherd

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