In conjunction with the ACLU of Northern California and Centro Legal de la Raza, we filed a class action challenging ICE’s policy of re-detaining people it had previously released, without any legal basis for re-arresting them. The court provisionally certified a class and stayed ICE’s policy of re-arresting asylum seekers and others who had been lawfully released without any material change in circumstances. ICE later stated that the court’s decision rendered ICE “non-operational” in the Bay Area.

We secured the release of Gennel Miles, Jr., who had spent 16 years in prison on a life sentence without parole on a murder conviction obtained under California’s former felony-murder law. As part of Keker’s Felony Murder Resentencing Project, which was initiated after California reformed its felony-murder law in 2019, we pursued a new evidentiary hearing for Gennel, ultimately uncovering evidence undermining the original conviction and obtaining a plea agreement for his release.