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Kimberley Motley: The Secret Superhero of Kabul’s Courtrooms
These experiences, coupled with the troubles of the people in her neighborhood, led her to develop a clear sense of social justice from an early age, and also a fascination with the law. As she later told interviewers, the subject was never far from view: “People in my neighborhood were often in and out of prison. Apart from mine, I don't remember anyone else having a two-parent household and there was a lot of drug-dealing." Fortunately Kimberley excelled at school, and although her parents wanted her to practice medicine, she was motivated by the injustices that surrounded her, including her father’s denied insurance, and wanted to study law to tackle the problems that she saw around her. She also found time to demonstrate a more impulsive side to her character when she was dared by a friend to enter the Mrs Wisconsin beauty pageant in 2004; she won the title, but her course was set on the law and after graduating she worked as a public defender in Milwaukee courts for five years.
HOW IT’S DONE
Everything changed in 2008, when Kimberley accepted a position on a U.S. Government mission to travel to Kabul to train local lawyers. Kimberley had never left the U.S before, and this was her first tri
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In the summer of 2008 Kimberley Motley quit her job as a public defender in Milwaukee to join a program that helped train lawyers in war-torn Afghanistan. She was thirty-two at the time, a mother of three who had never travelled outside the United States.
What she brought to Afghanistan was a toughness and resilience which came from growing up in one of the most dangerous cities in the US, a fundamental belief in everyone's right to justice and an unconventional legal mind that has made her a legend in an archaic, misogynistic and deeply conservative environment.
Through sheer force of personality, ingenuity and perseverance, Kimberley became the first foreign lawyer to practise in Afghanistan and her work swiftly morphed into a mission - to bring 'justness' to the defenceless and voiceless. She has established herself as an expert on its fledgling criminal justice system, able to pivot between the country's complex legislation and its religious laws in defence of her clients. Her radical approach has seen her successfully represent both Afghans and Westerners, overturning sentences for men and women who've been subject to often appalling miscarriages of justice.
Inspiring and fascinating in equal measure, Lawless tel