Matter of Liotta v. New York State Unified Ct. Sys.

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• concluding that heavy-handed tactics used by police during an investigation for legitimate purposes was not persecution on account of a protected ground
• noting that an “IJ may draw the inference that the police investigation is a subterfuge for political harassment” “where there appears to be no other logical reason for the persecution at issue” (citations omitted)
• noting that petitioners who lack affirmative evidence of their persecutors’ motivation can rely on a presumption that persecutors’ motive is political if the record reveals “no other logical reason for the persecution at issue”
• noting that petitioners who lacµ affirmative evidence of their persecutors' motivation can rely on a presumption that persecutors' motive is political if the record reveals 'no 4 other logical reason for the persecution at issue'
• legitimate prosecutorial purpose existed for a “heavy-handed” investigation of shootings during civil uprising
• ordinary prosecution for criminal activity is not persecution on account of a protected ground

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