Carla Laroche, Associate Clinical Professor at Washington & Lee University School of Law and Co-chair of the Women in Criminal Justice Task Force, interviews Valena Beety, Professor at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, about her new book, Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights. Beety, an expert in wrongful conviction litigation and a former federal prosecutor, focuses this powerful and enlightening book on her work to free women wrongly convicted in Mississippi and across the nation. Using Manifesting Justice as their guide, Laroche and Beety dive into the role of bias in wrongful convictions, particularly bias based on race, gender, sexual orientation, and disability, and how attorneys can challenge bias in the courtroom today. This conversation ranges from post-conviction litigation tactics to career encouragement for law students, to how wrongful convictions are far broader than our limited view of DNA and factual innocence.
