Maria Pouhova v. Eric Holder, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting application of presumption of reliability to hearsay statements of third parties recorded in official documents
• rejecting application of presumption of reliability to hearsay statements of third parties recorded in official documents
• rejecting application of presumption of reliability to hearsay statements of third parties recorded in official documents
• finding statement inadmissible when interview was conducted in English and there was no evidence about the alien’s English skills nor an opportunity to cross-examine the interviewing officer about the alien’s English abilities
• whether the admission of documents violates alien’s procedural rights in a removal proceeding is a legal question reviewed de novo
• “As a general rule, a Form 1-213 is treated as inherently trustworthy and admissible even without the testimony of the officer who prepared it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).