How have courts treated "innocent mistakes, trivial inconsistencies and harmless exaggerations" in assessing an adverse credibility determination?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Gao v. Sessions, 891 F.3d 67 (2nd Cir. 2018):
should not form the basis of an adverse credibility determination"); Kadia v. Gonzales , 501 F.3d 817, 821 (7th Cir. 2007) (faulting IJ for "fail[ing] to distinguish between material lies, on the one hand, and innocent mistakes, trivial inconsistencies, and harmless exaggerations, on the other hand").3
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