Miguel Velasquez-Samayoa v. Merrick Garland

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

MIGUEL ANGEL VELASQUEZ- No. 21-70093

SAMAYOA,

Petitioner, Agency No.

A044-804-654

v.

MERRICK B. GARLAND, Attorney OPINION General, Respondent.

On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals

Argued and Submitted March 10, 2022 Pasadena, California

Filed June 24, 2022

Before: Richard C. Tallman and Michelle T. Friedland, Circuit Judges, and Edward R. Korman, * District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Friedland

* The Honorable Edward R. Korman, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, sitting by designation. VELASQUEZ-SAMAYOA V. GARLAND

SUMMARY **

Immigration

Granting Miguel Angel Velasquez-Samayoa’s petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ decision affirming denial of protection under the Convention Against Torture, and remanding, the panel held that the Board erred by failing to adequately consider Velasquez-Samayoa’s aggregate risk of torture from multiple sources, and erred in rejecting Velasquez-Samayoa’s expert’s credible testimony solely because it was not…