Noel LOPEZ-REYES, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent

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• holding that IJ’s “astonishment” regarding aspects of petitioner’s testimony was “conjecture” that could not “substitute for substantial evidence”
• holding that petitioner’s credibility was not undermined by a later, more detailed oral testimony of what was described simply as “[guerrillas] death threatened me” in the application
• finding that a Guatemalan who was released by his torturers was not incredible because he was not killed
• explaining that we uphold an IJ’s credibility finding unless the evidence compels a contrary result
• explaining that an “applicant’s testimony is not per se lacking in credibility simply because it includes details that are not set forth in the asylum application”
• finding that an “applicant’s testimony is not per se lack- ing in credibility simply because it includes details that are not set forth in the asylum application”

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