Niang v. Mukasey

How courts have described this case

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• noting “given the tenuousness of the[ ] suspicions [of the authenticity of the documents submitted], they cannot ground an adverse credibility determination, where petitioner’s testimony was otherwise convincing and consistent”
• acknowledging fact that more than one typewriter appeared to have been used to create identity document provided basis for doubting authenticity of document, but holding that it alone was insufficient to find applicant not credible based on totality of circumstances
• “An IJ is fully entitled to make findings concerning the authenticity of submitted evidence, based on her own examination and her professional analysis. Such findings will ordinarily merit deference.”
• “Hoxhallari stands for the ‘uncontroversial propositions that [i] this Court is not ignorant of indisputable historical events -9- (such as the partition of India, the break-up of the Ottoman Empire, or the fall of Communist regimes in the Balkans

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