Lenjinac v. Holder

Federal 7th Circuit Court
Civil Court
Immigration
Citation
Case Number: 
No. 14-1807
Decision Date: 
March 17, 2015
Federal District: 
Petition for Review, Order of Bd. of Immigration Appeals
Holding: 
Petition denied
Record contained sufficient evidence to support Bd.’s denial of alien’s request for deferral of his removal under Convention Against Torture provisions, even though alien asserted that his return to Bosnia-Herzegovina would subject him to death threats, where members of military in his native country had previously killed male members of his family during civil war, and where his criminal conviction in U.S. would result in detention and torture in Bosnian prison system upon his return. Alien failed to present any evidence that anyone in Bosnia retained interest in torturing him upon his return. Fact that torture happened to others in Bosnia or in its prisons did not require different result.