Rachael Shulman Joins Galanda Broadman

Rachael Shulman has joined Galanda Broadman PLLC as an Associate. Rachael joins the firm after serving as an Assistant Public Defender in the Missouri State Public Defender’s Appellate/Postconviction Relief Division.

“We are excited about the criminal justice experience Rachael brings to our firm,” said Gabriel S. Galanda, Managing Lawyer of Galanda Broadman. “She will be an asset to our Indigenous civil rights clients, especially those whose rights have been violated by jail and police officers.”

Rachael is a 2021 graduate of the Washington University School of Law, where she was a quarter-finalist in the Wiley Rutledge Moot Court Competition and received the CLEA Outstanding Student Extern Award for her work with the Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic and the Center for International Environmental Law in Washington, D.C.

She has also served as a legal intern for the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

In her free time, Rachael enjoys riding horses, running, hiking national parks, cooking, and spending time with her two dogs, Paloma and Dottie.

Rachael joins a growing bench of Galanda Broadman team members. Harvard Law School alumnus Matt Slovin and University of Washington Law School alumna Corinne Sebren also recently joined the firm as Associates. 

Galanda Broadman is an Indigenous rights law firm with nine lawyers and offices in Seattle and Yakima, Washington and Bend, Oregon. The firm is dedicated to advancing Indigenous Treaty, sovereignty, and human rights.

Ryan Dreveskracht, Corinne Sebren Quoted in Rolling Stone

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.”