Monique T. Mwembie v. Alberto R. Gonzales, United States Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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• concluding petitioner’s employment status was not “fundamental to her identity or conscience” because “she c[ould] change her employment”
• noting that “an IJ can base some of his determinations on his understanding of general human behavior”
• explaining that the court is not compelled to uphold credibility determinations that are “unsupported by the record”
• rejecting the IJ’s adverse credibility determination but denying the petition on other grounds
• alien was in the building at the time of an assassination and considered a suspect for murder
• “where the judge’s credibility determinations are supported by the record, we will affirm them even if we may have reached a different conclusion”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).