convention against torture
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10th Circuit judges urge full-court consideration of immigration issue, while siding with man’s torture claims
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The Denver-based federal appeals court has agreed a Colorado immigration judge was wrong when he concluded Costa Rican police officers who abducted and raped a man, while wearing their uniforms and using their police car, were not actually acting in their government roles. Consequently, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…
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10th Circuit splits 2-1 on whether to order review of man’s torture claim
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Even though the federal appeals court based in Denver acknowledged an immigration judge in Colorado made a mistake when finding a Mexican citizen could avoid torture simply by moving elsewhere, it declined to overturn a deportation order by a 2-1 decision on Monday. Carlos E. Lockwood Alvarez asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…
