Over the weekend, Rolling Stone magazine published an investigative article on Emanuel Fair’s wrongful imprisonment for the murder of Arpana Jinaga in 2008, and his lawsuit against the City of Redmond and the Redmond Police Department. He is represented by Galanda Broadman.
According to the article, there was “persuasive evidence against at least six other suspects that the detectives were investigating — none of whom were Black, and none of whom spent a day in jail for Jinaga’s murder.”
Rolling Stone reports racial profiling was central to the case, with both the city and police department failing to use proper protocol in garnering evidence: “Those protocol failures, the suit alleges, in concert with the detectives’ apparent racial discrimination, deprived Emanuel Fair of his civil rights, and denied Arpana Jinaga any chance at justice.”
Ryan Dreveskracht and Corinne Sebren are both quoted in the article.
Corinne contended that “There’s very little justice left to salvage.” There is, however, a person trying to salvage a life interrupted, trying to return to life after a decade in purgatory, thanks to a legal system that still won’t concede it’s done anything wrong.
Ryan added, “Under the law, ‘probable cause’ requires you to look at the whole picture,” And “You can’t leave out the fact that there was basically everyone else’s DNA at the scene, too. And they did.”
Emanuel was targeted and jailed for a crime he didn’t commit. He suffered from nine years of imprisonment, much of which was spent in solitary confinement.
“The suit contends that Fair never would have been in that cell — and certainly not for years — if he weren’t a Black man with a criminal record.”
