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· 1/19/1994

United States v. Pasquale Amato

Citations

  • 15 F.3d 230
  • 39 Fed. R. Serv. 620
  • 1994 U.S. App. LEXIS 993
  • 1994 WL 12608

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  • “A motion for severance under Rule 14 is addressed to the discretion of the trial court, ... and the sound exercise of that discretion is virtually unreviewable.”
  • “[I]f, as Alvarez Lagos alleges, [the gang] has 16 imputed to her an anti-gang political opinion, then that imputed opinion would 17 be a central reason for likely persecution if she were returned to Honduras.”

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Judges: Kearse, Pierce, Jacobs

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