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Just as the Black Lives Matter movement and recent protests have shown the leadership of women of color in organizing against the prison state, this book will show the leadership of women, which is too often ignored, in the innocence movement. Aya Gruber, Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School, author of The Feminist War on Crime
Through the lens of her work with the Innocence Movement and her client Leigh Stubbsa woman denied a fair trial in 2000 largely due to her sexual orientationinnocence litigator, activist, and founder of the West Virginia Innocence Project Valena Beety examines the failures in Americas criminal legal system and the reforms necessary to eliminate wrongful convictionsparticularly with regards to women, the queer community, and people of color...
When Valena Beety first became a federal prosecutor, her goal was to protect victims, especially women, from cycles of violence. What she discovered was that not only did prosecutions often fail to help victims, they frequently relied on false information, forensic fraud, and police and prosecutor misconduct.
Seeking change, Beety began working in the Innocence Movement, helping to free factually innocent people through DNA testing and criminal justice reform. Manifesting Justice focuses on the shocking story of Beetys client Leigh Stubbsa young, queer woman in Mississippi, convicted of a horrific crime she did not commit because of her sexual orientation. Beety weaves Stubbss harrowing narrative through the broader story of a broken criminal justice system where defendantsincluding disproportionate numbers of women of color and queer individualsare convicted due to racism, prejudice, coerced confessions, and false identifications.
Drawing on interviews with both innocence advocates and wrongfully convicted women, along with Beetys own experiences as an expert litigator and a queer woman, Manifesting Justice provides a unique outsider/insider perspective. Beety expands our notion of justice to include not just people who are factually innocent, but those who are over-charged, pressured into bad plea deals, and over-sentenced. The result is a riveting and timely book that not only advocates for reforming the conviction processit will transform our very ideas of crime and punishment, what innocence is, and who should be free.
With a Foreword by Koa Beck, author of White Feminism
Through the lens of her work with the Innocence Movement and her client Leigh Stubbsa woman denied a fair trial in 2000 largely due to her sexual orientationinnocence litigator, activist, and founder of the West Virginia Innocence Project Valena Beety examines the failures in Americas criminal legal system and the reforms necessary to eliminate wrongful convictionsparticularly with regards to women, the queer community, and people of color...
When Valena Beety first became a federal prosecutor, her goal was to protect victims, especially women, from cycles of violence. What she discovered was that not only did prosecutions often fail to help victims, they frequently relied on false information, forensic fraud, and police and prosecutor misconduct.
Seeking change, Beety began working in the Innocence Movement, helping to free factually innocent people through DNA testing and criminal justice reform. Manifesting Justice focuses on the shocking story of Beetys client Leigh Stubbsa young, queer woman in Mississippi, convicted of a horrific crime she did not commit because of her sexual orientation. Beety weaves Stubbss harrowing narrative through the broader story of a broken criminal justice system where defendantsincluding disproportionate numbers of women of color and queer individualsare convicted due to racism, prejudice, coerced confessions, and false identifications.
Drawing on interviews with both innocence advocates and wrongfully convicted women, along with Beetys own experiences as an expert litigator and a queer woman, Manifesting Justice provides a unique outsider/insider perspective. Beety expands our notion of justice to include not just people who are factually innocent, but those who are over-charged, pressured into bad plea deals, and over-sentenced. The result is a riveting and timely book that not only advocates for reforming the conviction processit will transform our very ideas of crime and punishment, what innocence is, and who should be free.
With a Foreword by Koa Beck, author of White Feminism
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The success story of this book would not exist without the Mississippi Innocence Project, renamed the George C. Cochran Innocence Project in 2015, and Leigh Stubbs and Tami Vance who entrusted their case to us. Big thanks to Tucker Carrington, Will McIntosh, and Carol Mockbee, our MIP crew at the time. Thanks to all the students, interns, and visiting fellow, K.C. Meckfessel, who worked on Leigh and Tamis case and at MIP more broadly. The support from Ole Miss colleagues, the board, and the school made the broader innocence work possible, then and today.
Tucker and Radley Balko wrote an extraordinary book that dives into the many cases and lives impacted by Dr. West and Dr. Hayne titled The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South . I highly recommend it. Radley has also singlehandedly taken the conversation on repealing AEDPA to another level through his ongoing investigative journalism, alongside his commitment to exposing faulty forensics and challenging police brutality.
Many attorneys have guided my own legal path. In West Virginia, thats my colleagues at West Virginia University College of Law, retired Kanawha County public defender George Castelle, Lonnie Simmons, Al Karlin, Melissa Giggenbach, and all the attorneys, fellows, and students who worked in the West Virginia Innocence Project. The attorneys fighting for justice in West Virginia will always have my gratitude. Thank you for believing in change and refusing the status quo.
The women in the Innocence Network, and particularly the women who founded innocence organizations like Cookie Ridolfi, Linda Starr, Jackie McMurtrie, and Theresa Newman, and the women who were part of the creation of the Innocence Project like Nina Morrison, Vanessa Potkin, Aliza Kaplan, and soon thereafter Maddy Delone and Rebecca Brown, have transformed the legal landscape. I look forward to writing my next book about all of you. Thank you in particular to my friend and mentor Jackie McMurtrie. From the first time I walked into a room of innocence litigators and saw you knitting while calling the shots, you have been my hero. You have unabashedly known your truth and lifted up the truths of others, including me. Thank you for your friendship and support.
To the families of Leigh and Tamiyou never gave up. You are the true reason they are free. Sheila and Pete, Sandy, Lori, Kristi and Steve, you exemplify the meaning of the words family , commitment , and love .
Judge Michael Taylor, you took a courageous step of truly reexamining Leigh and Tamis case, and then an even more courageous step of reversing their convictions. You transformed the destinies of Tami, Leigh, and myself. I know you have touched many lives during your time on the bench, but Im particularly appreciative of these three.
For the women exonerees who have shared their stories with me, and for those who fight to free other people as well, thank you. To my clients, you have given me more than you may know; it is a privilege to represent you. To all the wrongly convicted people still incarcerated, I hope the tools in this book assist in your freedom.
When this was just a book proposal, some writers stepped up and vouched for me. Thank you to these inspiring writers and advocates: Alison Flowers, Liliana Segura, Jen Marlowe, Jessica Blank, Jennifer Thompson, Radley Balko, and Maurice Possley.
Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist and author Maurice Possley kindly helped edit this book and share his expertise on wrongful convictions and criminal justice. Thank you to him, and his spouse Cathleen Falsani, for early advice on my book proposal and finding an agent. You were both there at the beginning!
Thank you to my friends in academia and in the innocence world who gave me important feedback for the many topics I tried to cover in this book. This includes Jessica Henry, Mary Thomas, Lisa Pruitt, Joshua Jones, Jordan Woods, India Thusi, Anthony Kreis, Aziza Ahmed, Larry Levine, Josh Sellers, Keith Findley, Dara Purvis, Richard Leo, Bruce Green, Ron Wright, Doug Starr, Ira Robbins, Lee Kovarsky, Eve Hanan, Stephanie Hartung, Aya Gruber, Sandra Guerra Thompson, and Nicole Casarez. Thank you also to my colleagues at the Decarceration Law Profs Works in Progress gathering each summer, and to Jamelia Morgan, India Thusi, and Ngozi Oki-degbe for organizing this thoughtful and compassionate group of people. Finally, thank you to Deirdre Cooper Owens for your groundbreaking work on the Black and Irish mothers of Gynecology, and for your friendship in Mississippi and today. We made it.
Koa Beck has laid a blueprint for equality and social change in her thought-provoking book White Feminism , and generously wrote the forward. Koa, I aspire to be as discerning and discovering as you are, and for my writing to be as forthright and honest as your writing. You set a high bar.
Thank you to my nimble and ingenious agent Jill Marr at Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency who saw my book proposal and could envision what it would become, even before I fully did. Thank you to my editor at Kensington Books, Michaela Hamilton, who then made that vision a reality with particular kindness and beneficence. I appreciate your patience working with a novice like myself.
At Arizona State University, thank you to my colleagues in the Academy for Justice, and particularly Commissioner Dawn Walton and Suzanne Stewart. Many research assistants helped me with interviews, footnotes, and the small but important things I couldnt do on my own: Zach Stern, Alejandra Molina Curiel, Tihanne Marshall, and Alyssa Padilla. Research assistants Jill Mceldowney and Priyal Thakkar are impressive poets and kindly gave me feedback and editing tips.
Thank you to my family, my parents, my aunt Martha and uncle Kent, my aunt Chris and uncle Tom, and my cousins Dean, Julie, and Stephan. I love you across any distance!
Thank you to my close friends who have been godsends for yearsand who truly stepped up to help me with framing and creating this book. They contributed edits, insights, and encouragement when I was full of self-doubt. Nora Niedzielski-Eichner and Cara Kuball, you helped me with this book when it was just a jumble of ideas. Emily Bernstein, Jacqueline Speir, and Maya Ganguly, you helped me get out of my lawyer-head and out of my own way to make this book better.
I never had writing partnersuntil this book. Now, I dont know what I would do without either of these dear friends and our writing time together. Lara Bazelon, our friendship was one of the few good things to come of the COVID pandemic, and I appreciate how our friendship deepened through sharing our work. Im glad well keep writing together long after our current projects. Holly Warren, youve been an impressive writer since we were in college. Thank you for sharing the struggle days and the victory days of writing.
Thank you most of all to my wife, Jennifer Oliva. Youve seen my obsessive work tendencies, my writing insecurities, and my meltdowns. Through it all, you encouraged me and loved me. You let me know you were proud of me, and proud of me for writing this book. I hope you know how integral you are to it, and to all of my endeavors. I love you.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
V ALENA B EETY is a former federal prosecutor and innocence litigator. She has successfully exonerated wrongfully convicted clients, obtained presidential grants of clemency for drug offenders, served as an elected board member of the national Innocence Network, and was appointed commissioner on the West Virginia Governors Indigent Defense Commission. She is currently a professor of law at Arizona State Universitys Sandra Day OConnor College of Law and the deputy director of the Academy for Justice, a criminal justice center at the law school, which connects research with policy reform. Previously, she founded and directed the West Virginia Innocence Project at the West Virginia University College of Law and practiced as a senior staff attorney at the Mississippi Innocence Project, representing clients on death row. She and her wife live in Phoenix, Arizona. Please visit her at www.valenabeety.com .
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