Quevedo v. Ashcroft

How courts have described this case

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• shifting the burden to the government to rebut a well-founded fear of persecution where the petitioner had shown past persecution
• “This Circuit has rejected the contention that pervasive non-political criminality in Guatemala constitutes a basis for asylum.”
• \[Country conditions] evidence is often general in nature and may not be an adequate response to an applicant's showing of specific personal danger.\
• “This Circuit has rejected the contention that pervasive non-political criminality in Guatemala constitutes a basis for asylum.”
• first citing Herbert v. Ashcroft, 325 F.3d 68, 71 (1st Cir. 2003); and then citing Albathani v. INS, 318 F.3d 365, 373 (1st Cir. 2003)
• \Evidence from the government about changed country conditions does not automatically rebut the presumption.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).