Savchuck v. Mukasey

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• placing burden on applicant to show the likelihood of each link in the chain to establish likelihood of future torture
• “It is the likelihood of all necessary events coming together that must more likely than not lead to torture, and a chain of events cannot be more likely than its least likely link.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “It is the likelihood of all necessary events coming together that must more likely than not lead to torture, and a chain of events cannot be more likely than its least likely link.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[A]n alien will never be able to show that he faces a more likely than not chance of torture if one link in the chain [of events leading to torture] cannot be shown to be more likely than not to occur.”
• approving agency’s application of J-F-F- to find CAT claim speculative
• “[A]n alien will 4 never be able to show that he faces a more likely than not chance of torture if one link in the chain cannot be shown to be more likely than not to occur.” (quoting In re J-F-F-, 23 I. & N. Dec. 912, 918 n.4 (AG 2006))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).