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SHTARO v. GONZALES

No. 04-4201.

435 F.3d 711 (2006)

Violeta SHTARO, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 24, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Saadia Siddique (argued), Azulay, Horn & Seiden, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner.

Karen Lundgren, Department of Homeland Security, Office of the District Counsel, Chicago, IL, Eric Marsteller (argued), Department of Justice, Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before KANNE, WOOD, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

KANNE, Circuit Judge.

Albanian citizen Violeta Shtaro seeks review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") removal order summarily affirming the Immigration Judge's ("IJ") decision to deny her eligibility for asylum on the ground that her testimony was not credible. We conclude that the IJ's decision is not supported by substantial evidence and therefore grant Shtaro's petition.

I.

Shtaro entered the United States in March 2001 under a Slovenian...

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