Kelly Orians

Parole board hrgs are tough. Esp in Virginia where your client isn’t present, & instead meets separately, w/o you. I wish all my clients had the beautiful network loving and wise women that showed up for our client today. Once again, very grateful for my @gwlaw.bsky.social student’s persistence.

Recap of the last 2 weeks: 6 visits to clients in federal prisons in 3 states, with 8 students, while 6ish months pregnant… with 3 court appearances mixed in….grateful to still have the energy for this, for @gwlaw.bsky.social for supporting the work, and for my student’s dedication and compassion.

Pictured: @uvalaw.bsky.social 3Ls Louisa Auerbach & Kyndall Walker who co-wrote a brilliant petition, and @gwlaw.bsky.social 3Ls Kenji Yamamoto & Jake Wylie who have fought relentlessly with BOP to ensure we can speak to our client, and carried the case across the finish line in court today.

A great day in court! So thrilled for our client who will get home just in time for his first Thanksgiving with his family in 16 years. And I am so proud of the 9 law students (7 at @uvalaw.bsky.social & 2 at @gwlaw.bsky.social) who worked so diligently for 2+ years to secure a sentence reduction.

(Also we were in Criminal Court, not Family Court, but this was the closest exit after four hours in court).

So proud of the 8 law students (6 at @uvalaw.bsky.social and 2 at @gwlaw.bsky.social) who put 2+ years pursuing a sentence reduction for a client under D.C.’s Second Look Law. GW Law 3Ls Zoe Jacobs and Nick Teachenor’s professionalism and preparation during today’s 3 hour hearing was extraordinary.

Invite me to your health related emergencies.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

I wasn’t here looking for it (though I love it when I see it), but for people keeping track of DC federal grand jury ‘no true bills,’ I think there was just another one. I’m sitting in magistrate court on another case, no press or observers, and the AUSA just reported no true bill in U.S. vs. K.B.

#JuryDutyIsOurDuty

Thank you, D.C. Grand Jurors.

Thousands take to the street (in D.C. heat) to protest the federal takeover. #FreeDC

A Black man with a bald head faces away from the camera toward a crowd on an open plaza. He has his hand raised above his head waving a flag. Text reads "3 days away! We Are All DC. Saturday September 6 @ 11 AM. Malcolm X Park."

DC residents and allies across the country will rise up on Saturday to demand an end to DC's occupation.

BE THERE! Get your friends, neighbors, congregation, and community to join the national event this Saturday at 11 AM in Malcolm X Park. Sign up at bit.ly/we-are-all-dc

Your crim law professor and your other crim law professor are having a baby . . . ✨❤️

@tframpton.bsky.social

We strongly object to the proposed ban on camping on public property in the city.

This inhumane policy was condoned by the current right wing Supreme Court in the Grant’s Pass decision, which Chief Kochis sites in his justification for the policy.

Homelessness is solved by housing, not policing.

Tyfys @kirkwolff.bsky.social 🫡

From a student: “federal prosecutors can indict a ham sandwich, but not the man who threw it.” (Kirk Wolff, UVa Law).

Good morning to everyone except the ATF and MPD officers who just kidnapped someone around the corner. Terrorizing everyone as little kids walked to the elementary school around the corner.

The Parole Board (which took the time to directly address those viewing on YouTube to explain "medical furlough") just granted relief to Kentrell Parker.

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"It's up to us, that the buck stops with us, that we can't just trust the system to right itself, that the Constitution doesn't enforce itself . . . I know I sound like I'm flag waving. It's the Fourth of July, but this is absolutely, 100%, what I believe." - Meg Garvey, 20 year public defender.