United States Seventh Circuit

Petition for review of a denial of asylum is granted where petitioner's evidentiary hearing was too unreliable to enable the court to conclude that a credibility determination based on the hearing was supported by substantial evidence.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/06/2006
• Decided 09/07/2007
• Published 09/07/2007

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John L. Sesini, Milwaukee, WI, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Patricia M. Bowman, Department of Justice, Tax Division, Appellate Section, Karen Lundgren, Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Chief Counsel, Chicago, IL, John C. O'Quinn, argued, Department of Justice, Office of the Associate Attorney General, Washington, DC, for Respondent.