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VIRGINIA LAW WEEKLY 2017, 2018, & 2019 ABA Law Student Division Best Newspaper Award-Winner A Look Tired of School Already? Try Watching The Boys.......................2 Refined Opinions on the Law School's Art........................................3 Inside: Editors Debate Pulling In v. Backing Into Parking Spaces........5 Wednesday, 14 October 2020 The Newspaper of the University of Virginia School of Law Since 1948 Volume 73, Number 8 From Farm to around north Table—A Food UVA Innocence Project grounds Adventure in Charlottesville Thumbs up to the Client Rojai Fentress free apples from Grace Tang ’21 Student Affairs. Foreign Correspondent While bobbing for apples is much harder with My first farm to table ex- Speaks at the Law School a mask on, ANG is willing perience was at a restaurant to try every crazy idea at called Borealis in Kitchener, least once. Ontario. The restaurant prid- ed itself on being “Obsessive- Thumbs down ly Local,” sourcing its ingre- to the UVA COV- dients from local farms and ID tracker, which producers in the area. I was seems to only up- skeptical about the quality date when it feels like it. of the food at first. Wouldn’t ANG has the same policy the restaurant’s ingredients for ANG's written assign- be limited? The restaurant ments ANG has to turn in. couldn’t serve exotic ingredi- ents, and sourcing from local Thumbs up to farms must take more effort people like ANG . I didn’t have high hopes. who make their However, after my first bite own fall break. Go of their twenty-eight-day- ahead, miss two days of aged steak paired with de- class. If you’re a Zoomer licious local vegetables, I nobody will notice. If you’re was a believer. I loved how in person, nobody will real- the restaurant changed its ize you’re gone because ev- menu to adapt to the seasons erybody looks the same in a and highlighted ingredients mask. that were in season. During the fall, the menu featured Thumbs down squash, pumpkin, and root Pictured: The Innocence Project investigates and litigates wrongful convictions of inmates throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. Photo Courtesy of law.virginia.edu to the arrival of vegetables. In the spring, spooky season. there was fresh fish, rhubarb, Kathryn Querner ‘22 She added, “I was really Fatherree investigated Fen- Things were al- and asparagus. Going for a Executive Editor glad so many of the people tress’ claim with the goal of ready scary enough. Should meal at Borealis was always On Monday, October 5, who followed his story, signed overturning Fentress’ convic- we just skip to the part of a treat. Sourcing ingredients UVA Law Innocence Project his petition, and donated to tion on the basis of evidence the year where we all hear locally wasn’t a handicap client Rojai Fentress came to his fund got to hear from him strongly suggesting his in- “All I Want for Christmas for the restaurant; in fact, speak at the Law School. With directly.” nocence. Through her work is You” nonstop? Or is that it made the food that much the clinical assistance of the Many challenges lie ahead with the clinic, Fatherree also terrifying? fresher and more delicious. Innocence Project, which in- of Fentress on his journey to said that she was exposed to Despite supporting Bo- vestigated for years his claim pursuing innocence; for one, “the many problems in the Thumbs up to realis and the restaurant’s to innocence, Fentress was Fentress’ conditional pardon criminal justice system, one pumpkin pie. This values of sustainability, I released from prison just does not replace the Court’s being the difference in the is ANG’s PSA that never imagined that I could this past summer on a con- original verdict. Accordingly, amount of evidence required there’s more to fall do the same thing at home. ditional pardon by Governor the Innocence Project con- for a given case—specifically flavors than pumpkin spice I always imagined farm to Northam. He had been incar- tinues work with Fentress to those involving people who lattes. table cooking to be exorbi- cerated for twenty-four years. pursue his complete exonera- are more vulnerable and have tantly expensive and diffi- To investigate Fentress’ tion. Rachel Martin ’23, who less access to resources—to Thumbs down cult. In my mind, I pictured claim of innocence, students attended the event, observed, get a conviction, which does to judges who de- $10 per bunch spinach and of both of UVA Law’s Inno- “One of the things that made not always seem to rise to the nied Kanye a spot $50/oz steak. I assumed that cence Project clinics—the a big impression on me was necessary level.” on the 2020 bal- only the ultra-wealthy and academic for-credit clinic and how happy Rojai seemed. De- In an effort to learn more lot. How is ANG supposed privileged could enjoy farm the Student Pro Bono Clinic spite the incredible injustice about the organization that to know whether to write- to table cooking. (VIPS)—worked in conjunc- that was done to him and the has taken on and represented in “Kanye West,” “Kanye,” Things all started tion under the guidance of difficulties that lay ahead, he Fentress in his efforts to prove “Ye,” “Yeezy,” “Yeezus,” to change this summer. Clinical Directors Deirdre En- had a joyful smile and a light his innocence, I reached out “Pablo,” “Kan The Louis Through a series of interest- right ’92 and Jennifer Givens, in his eyes that I think most of specifically to VIPS—one of Vuitton Don,” or “The LeB- ing events, I began looking as well as VIPS Staff Attorney us would be hard-pressed to the two Innocence Project ron of Rhyme” on the bal- into shopping for meat in lo- Juliet Hatchet ’15. match.” clinics that investigated Fen- lot? cal farms. It turns out that a The event was coordinated Another attendee of the tress’ case. litigation partner at my law by Anne Bigler ’21, the lead event, Josh Short ’21, said, The Student Pro Bono Clin- Thumbs up to firm this past summer owns for VIPS fundraising and “Rojai had been wrongly ic, more commonly referred the Lakers and Broad Arrow, a farm market outreach, who commented, convicted and imprisoned to as VIPS (Virginia Inno- LeBron “The and butcher in Maine with “I think Rojai’s case was just for twenty-four years, yet he cence Project Student Group), Kanye of Basket- her husband. They supply a perfect example of how in- harbored no ill will toward enlists student volunteers to ball” James on their NBA high quality, pasture-raised credibly challenging it is to the prosecutors, witnesses, investigate claims by individ- championship. meat to all of the nice res- get innocent people out of etc. He is basically a poster uals who assert that they have taurants in the area. I looked prison. He was convicted in child for forgiveness. Also, been wrongfully incarcerated. Thumbs down into their website and was forty-five minutes and it took with all the doom and gloom The clinic is open to law stu- to the weather. surprised to see how afford- twenty-four years to get him in the world, he is a ray of dents of all years, unlike the ANG already able their products were. out. It was obviously a huge sunshine. There was a pretty academic clinic which is not sleeps in class, but This fall, after the school win for Rojai, who is picking special moment when he was available for 1Ls, and it is es- the rain provides another announced the Farm Share up a life he left at sixteen now describing his new apartment pecially relevant to students excuse. program, I started thinking at forty-years-old. He had just and he said something to the seeking to work on cases or about buying and cooking lo- moved into his first apartment effect of: ‘Here I am, a man, are interested in criminal jus- Thumbs up to cally again. When I lived in and got his driver’s license the loving life and everything it tice reform. two more weeks San Francisco last summer, day of the event. He is doing has to offer.’” Students are grouped into of heightened CO- I loved going to the farmer’s so well and is truly radiating Taylor Fatherree ’22 vol- teams; each team is assigned VID restrictions. ANG is market at the Civic Center joy. He is so grateful for every unteered with VIPS this past to investigate specific cases in happy that karma finally every week. Local farm- moment and never lost hope. school year (2019-20), and Virginia. Generally, the Inno- caught up to everyone who He’s extraordinary and a one her team worked on Fentress’ didn’t invite ANG to their FARM TO TABLE page 2 of a kind person.” case. Alongside her team, INNOCENCE page 6 illicit off-grounds ragers. 2 Columns VIRGINIA LAW WEEKLY Wednesday, 14 October 2020 FARM TO TABLE cluding grass-fed beef, forest- iron pan until cooked. The fed pork, pasteurized chicken pork chops were about an Taste This: On Old continued from page 1 and duck, and even goose on inch thick, and I seared them special occasions. for just over a minute on both ers would sell fresh produce The drive up to the farm sides. For the salad, I shaved Friends and New at excellent prices. I started was absolutely lovely; blue slices of radish, carrots, and looking into similar options skies and green hills flashed peppers on top of a bed of sal- in Charlottesville and found a by with glimpses of golden ad greens and topped off with Ramen treasure trove of local options.

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