The Asa Hutchinson Law Group represents a well-known Guatemalan defense lawyer and former special prosecutor in his Freedom of Information Act suit against the U.S. State Department to obtain the government’s records upon which the government based its denial of his non-immigrant visa. Attorney Fernando Linares Beltranena is known for representing highly controversial criminal defendants, and his denial for a non-immigrant visa cited a statute that bars foreigners from entry into the U.S. if there is reason to suspect they have been involved in drug trafficking. Senior Partner Asa Hutchinson, however, fears that his client is being denied admission to the U.S. because of the controversial figures Mr. Beltranena has represented.
The following link to an article published August 6, 2009 in The National Law Journal provides more details:
http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202432834067#

