Kimberley Motley

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Kimberley Chongyon Motley is an American American and Korean American International Lawyer. She is the mother of three, and a former Mrs. Wisconsin-American 2004, known as the first foreign lawyer to file lawsuits in Afghanistan since 2008. She is licensed and has permission to practice in Afghanistan, Wisconsin, US Supreme Court, Dubai International Financial Court, and the International Criminal Court. He is considered one of the most effective defense attorneys operating in Afghanistan.

In the male dominated court system and prison, writes Tom Freston at Vanity Fair Motley must appear as a person from outer space, acknowledging this but claiming that he has the respect... He has proven to be a very effective and resilient fighter. "Motley has been described as having" the kind of rare-grit-type necessary to hang shingles in Kabul, representing under-represented, weather threat kaleidoscopes, and winning respect from the formation of Afghan law (and leaders tribe). "

Tom Rosenstock, a lawyer who has worked in Kabul since 2008, told The Daily Beast in 2010 that Motley may be doing more to promote the rule of law than the big ambitious program that never gets to the venue rubber road. " A Western diplomat in Afghanistan calls Motley "the type of person who makes you change [your] opinion about lawyers."

In 2014, Motley was named by Richard Branson as one of the most inspirational people and described it as an "inspiring litigator with a strong message:" The law is ours - regardless of ethnicity, nationality, gender, race - they belong to us. "

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Early life and education

Motley's father is African-American and his mother is from the North Korean countryside. His parents met when his father was in the military. Motley grew up in a "hard" neighborhood in Milwaukee. Her parents are "very nurturing, but outdoors, my environment is hard, hard, even though we are so close family." There are a lot of evil, lots of poverty, lots of distrust of each other A A lot of people where I grow feel invisible to the world. have two brothers and sisters, and I can not think of another family, for example, living in a household with two parents. "He started working at a very early age. Every summer during his childhood, Motley and his siblings are taken to a farm where they have to "grow radishes and pick green beans and strawberries" that will be frozen for families to eat during the winter. Motley and his brother also have a newspaper route. In addition, he worked at an ice cream shop at the age of 13, and "in a juvenile detention center, a grocery store, youth center."

He was interested in the law from an early age. Although her parents will not usually let her watch television, she has a teacher who tells the class to watch Law & amp; Messages . "I love it so much that for three years, I keep telling my parents, my teacher needs me to watch Law & Order ." At one point, his father was injured in a car accident and dismissed as a result. "He wanted a disability and had to spend years and pass through so many lawyers that ultimately did not work out," he recalled. This spurred his interest in the law, as did the spectacle of "so many people in my neighborhood are in and out of jail." He has said that actually "I want to be a doctor and a DJ, but the law picks me up."

Motley received an Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.) from Milwaukee Area Technical College in 1997. He received a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2000, and in 2003 received his M.A. from the same institution. In the same year, he earned a J.D degree from Marquette University Law School.

Motley was named Miss Wisconsin in 2004.

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Careers

In 2008, after working as a public defender in Milwaukee for five years, Motley went to Afghanistan as part of a nine months legal education program run by the US State Department to train Afghan lawyers. He has never traveled outside the US before. "In those nine months," he then recalled in the TED 2014 talks, "I toured the country and I talked to hundreds of people who were locked up, and I talked to many businesses that also operate in Afghanistan and in this conversation I started hearing connections between businesses and people, and how laws meant to protect them are being underutilized, whereas dirty and illegal punishment are overused and so this puts me on a quest for justice, and what justice means to me is to use the law for "The role of the law is to protect, so as a result, I decided to open a private practice, and I became the first foreigner to prosecute in an Afghan court."

Initially he represented Westerners and other non-Afghans who were stranded in Afghan prisons. "What I found," he later recalled, "is that most do not have the proper legal representation.If they speak English they do not know what is going on in court I feel and still feel a big responsibility for them as someone and as a lawyer. "

Motley's first defendant was "an African woman convicted of drug trafficking She was a drug trafficker sent to Afghanistan by a European pimp.... She has been jailed for two years with her 3-year-old daughter She was sentenced to 14 years in prison, his son will be raised in prison, he has gone through almost all his legal options.I feel very helpless, and I believe his case helps define and shape who I am because of the legal process under Afghan law He and his son are kept in Afghan prisons, forgotten. "Finally, Motley managed to get a presidential decree ordering her release.

Since 2009, Motley has become CEO of Motley Consulting International, where he is a Founding Partner. From the same year he also became CEO of Motley Law Services, which provides legal representation in the US and Afghanistan. He spent about six months in a fortified house in Kabul, where he provided representations for criminal cases and human rights in the country. He is busy with the task of raising the capacity of the rule of international law. He is registered as a lawyer at the American, French, US, Australian, Spanish, Dutch, British, Italian, Norwegian, Canadian and Canadian Embassies in Afghanistan, and is thus routinely contacted by expatriates facing legal issues with Afghan authorities.

"Motley is working to free foreigners who are languishing in Afghan prisons," reported The Daily Beast in 2010, "and often his work begins after the verdict - as in the case of an Australian convicted, convicted of murdering an Afghan colleague, a South African a sentence of fifteen years in prison on drug charges, and a Briton convicted of fraud. "For example," he negotiated the release of Bill Shaw, a former British military officer, who had been detained in the notorious Pul-e-charki prison for five months. "

He "has developed his own approach to operating in Afghan courts," reports The Daily Beast . For example, "he never wore a veil or dress" during the trial. He explained, "I need to look like a man as much as possible... I find that men hear me more when I do not wear the headscarf, I wear it at first, and when I release it, I find men more respectful."

In 2010, Motley was under threat from the office of the Afghan District Prosecutor to arrest him when he set foot on Kabul, in retaliation for his harsh criticism of the corrupt judicial system in Afghanistan. He did not hesitate to return. "I have a client there," he said. "They need my help." He also noted that he received the threat of rape. "If I were a boy, I'd get more death threats, I guess, but I got that too." He was also "temporarily detained" and "accused of running brothels" and espionage. A grenade was thrown into his office. But he says that the rewards of his work "outweigh the risks, and because of the many risks I take, my clients take much greater risks, because they have more harm if their case is not heard, or worse, if they "I was punished for having me as their lawyer. With every case I take, I realize that as much as I stand behind my clients, that they are also standing behind me, and that's what keeps me going. "

On June 21, 2014, Motley's husband, Claudiare Motley, was shot in Milwaukee after attending a high school reunion for a sixteen-year-old Nathan King car hijacking trial. Finally the King was shot while trying another robbery and became paralyzed as a result. Motley represents Claudiare and Victoria Davison, the woman who shot King, at the Court. On July 16, 2015, the King was found guilty of two counts of Armed Robbery Attempting against Motley and Davison and eventually receiving twelve years in prison and eight years of imprisonment. ^{[9] [10] [11]}

On December 16, 2016, Motley traveled to Havana, Cuba to represent Danilo Machado. While in Havana Motley was arrested without charge and then deported from Cuba. Motley was instrumental in the release of Machado on January 21, 2017, released from prison El Combinado del Este without charge.

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Client

Motley has managed to handle a number of high profile cases worldwide including but not limited to.

Danilo Maldonado Machado a.k.a. El Sexto - Human Rights Lawyer Represents El Sexto Arrested in Havana
Niloofar Rhamani - Meet Afghan First Winger Fixed Pilots
Anwar Ibrahim - US lawyer handles Sodomy II Case Anwar Ibrahim
Australian Child Abduction - Abducted Children to Afghanistan Return to Their Mother
British kidnapping - kidnap boys found in Afghanistan reunited with mother
Bevan Campbell - Former Queen of Beauty at Lawyering in Afghanistan (Bevan Campbell Freed)
Victoria Davidson - Two Victims of Crime of One CCW Shooter who Shoots a Boy in Court for Sixteen Punishments
Farkhunda - (Motley represents the Farkhunda family only in the First Court where there are 23 verdicts) Almost Unfair for Farkhunda
David Gordon - US contractor who is illegally detained in Afghanistan
Sahar Gul - The Afghan Hunter Hunter's Update
Gulnaz - Afghan Rape Victims Released From Prison
Michael Hearn - British Personal Security Company Employee Imprisoned by Afghans Amid Crackdown (released from prison)
Khatera - Afghan Police Demand For Killing Girls
Robert Langdon - Aussie Debt Release to US Attorney
Anthony Malone - Ex-Anthony Malone Freed from Afghan Prison
Naghma (Child Bride) - Lobbing Agreement to Save a Girl
Mariam Rocabado - World Class Attorney Offer with Rape Case in Bolivia
Matthew Rosenberg/New York Times - New President Welcomes Back Times Reporter
William Shaw - Former British Army Officer Released from Bribery Cost
Baljit Singh - Afghan, Arrested For Being Sikh Released from Prison
Charlie Tate - Two Men Sentenced to Unrelated Death
Philip Young - Philip Young will be Released
British contractor - Britons freed in Afghanistan after arms capture
The Eight-Year Boy Should Stay In Careful Supervision