Sekou Sylla v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that adverse credibility findings must be based on issues that go to the heart of the applicant’s claim
• holding that the court considers discrepancies that “go to the heart” of the alien’s claim
• holding that a credibility determination is considered a finding of fact and reviewed under the “substantial evidence” standard
• holding that an IJ could not speculate on typical prison conditions in Guiana but needed to base his credibility determination on evidence in the actual record
• holding that the IJ could not speculate on typical prison conditions in Guinea but needed to base his credibility determinations on evidence in the actual record
• holding that the IJ could not speculate on typical prison conditions in Guiana but needed to base his credibility determinations on evidence in the actual record

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).