The Ninth Circuit denied a petition for review brought by a former Salvadoran professional soccer player and deputy to a Salvadoran congressman, holding that he was statutorily barred from asylum and withholding of removal relief under the serious nonpolitical crime bar, because there was probable cause to believe that he was complicit in the murders in Guatemala of three Salvadoran representatives to the Central American Parliament.
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