The Seventh Circuit has determined that an asylum officer's notes from a credible fear interview are insufficiently reliable to sustain an adverse credibility determination.  The court noted that the officer's notes specifically state they are not a verbatim transcript and do not represent an in-depth assessment of the applicant's asylum claim.  

The full text of Jimenez Ferreira v. Lynch can be found here:

http://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&Path=Y2016/D08-05/C:15-2603:J:PerCuriam:aut:T:op:N:1806548:S:0

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