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192842P.pdf 02/11/2021 Laith Shazi v. Monty Wilkinson
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 19-2842
Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals
[PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Benton and Kelly, Circuit Judges]
Petition for Review - Immigration. Once an alien is found to have
committed a particularly serious crime, the agency need not engage in a
separate determination to address whether the alien is a danger to the
community, and the IJ and the BIA did not err in failing to consider
petitioner's likelihood of future misconduct in determining whether to
revoke his grant of withholding of removal; the BIA's categorical ban on
mental health evidence as a factor in the "particularly serious crime"
determination is unreasonable and the court reaffirms its position that
all reliable information pertaining to the nature of the crime, including
evidence of mental health conditions, may be considered in the
particularly serious crime analysis; the court lacks jurisdiction to
review a claim that IJ and BIA erred in finding petitioner's testimony not
credible as the claims relate to the termination of petitioner's statutory
withholding of removal; to the extent this adverse credibility
determination impacted petitioner's claim for CAT relief, the agency's
credibility determination was supported by specific, cogent reasons,
including citations to materials in the record, and would be affirmed; the
agency's adverse determination regarding whether petitioner had
established that it was more likely than not that he would be tortured on
return to Iraq is affirmed; the BIA did not abuse its discretion denying
petitioner's motion for a remand for consideration of additional evidence
on the question of torture; the petition for review is granted for further
consideration of petitioner's mental health in determining whether he was
barred from withholding of removal based on the commission of a
particularly serious crime.