Donald Hanaj v. Alberto R. Gonzales

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the IJ erroneously discredited the petitioner based on details when the alien’s description of “the acts forming the basis of his persecution claim” was consistent
• stating that an IJ “must present a reasoned analysis of the evidence as a whole”
• stating that an IJ “must present a reasoned analysis of the evidence as a whole”
• finding that scars corroborated the petitioner’s allegation of torture where he produced an affidavit from a board-certified family physician who stated that the petitioner’s scars were “consistent with his allegations of the beatings”
• “An IJ must analyze inconsistencies against the backdrop of the whole record, as one factor in the overall credibility determination.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).