Naing Tun v. Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States

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• holding that improper exclusion of expert testimony violated the petitioner’s due process rights
• observing that language-based difficulties in understanding can lend “an air of evasiveness and confusion to the proceedings”
• stating that involvement in an advocacy organization may affect the weight of an expert’s testimony but is not an adequate basis to exclude it
• stating that a petitioner is entitled to relief for a due-process violation if she demonstrates that it had the potential to affect the outcome
• stating that the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause entitles an alien to a fair hearing in removal proceedings where he may “fairly present evidence, offer arguments, and develop the record”
• noting that IJs routinely rely on the State Department’s country reports

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).