Manuel Chavez-Reyes v. Eric Holder, Jr.

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• holding that weight of documentary evidence is within 4 agency’s discretion and deferring to the agency’s decision to give limited weight 5 to letter from applicant’s spouse
• “We defer to the agency’s 4 determination of the weight afforded to an alien’s documentary 5 evidence”
• “We generally defer to the agency’s evaluation of the 4 weight to be afforded an applicant’s documentary evidence.”
• use or exemplification generally 24 means use at trial and not for the convenience of counsel and the court
• circumstantial evidence, coupled with the petitioner’s guilty plea, supported the BIA’s “reason to believe” finding
• “As a general 4 rule, a voluntary guilty plea to criminal charges is probative evidence that the petitioner did, in fact, engage in the charged activity . . . .”

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