United States First Circuit

Petition for review of an order denying application for withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture, and rejecting a request for voluntary departure, is denied in part and dismissed in part where: 1) petitioner is not entitled to withholding of removal as substantial evidence supports a determination that petitioner faced neither past persecution nor a likelihood of future persecution, and did not show a well-founded fear of future persecution; 2) petitioner is not entitled to protection under the Convention Against Torture as he presented no evidence regarding the likelihood of his being tortured upon his return to his home country; and 3) the present court has no jurisdiction to review denials of voluntary departure.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/07/2009
• Published 08/07/2009

Judges

• LYNCH, Chief Judge., Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, SELYA and BOUDIN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Carlos E. Estrada, on brief for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Anthony W. Norwood, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, Tony West, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Terri J. Scadron, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, on brief for respondent.