JIBRIL v. GONZALES

No. 03-72118.

423 F.3d 1129 (2005)

Mustafe Muse JIBRIL, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 19, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Salvador Colon, Fong & Associates, Houston, TX, argued the cause for the petitioner. Ali. M. Onan was on the briefs.

Teal Luthy Miller argued the cause for the respondent. Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Robert M. Loeb and Deborah Ruth Kant, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., and Terri J. Scadron, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, were on the briefs.

Before: O'SCANNLAIN and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges, and WHALEY, District Judge.


O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge.

We must decide whether, under our case law, an immigration judge's adverse credibility finding is supported by the alleged implausibilities and inconsistencies in an asylum applicant's testimony and by his purportedly evasive and unresponsive demeanor while testifying.

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Mustafe Muse Jibril is a member of the Yibir, a disfavored minority clan without land or power in Somalia...

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