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A blueprint for eliminating wrongful convictions based on gender, race and sexual orientation
Manifesting Justice by innocence litigator, activist, and founder of the West Virginia Innocence Project, Valena Beety, is both a blueprint for reform and a clarion call to change popular ideas of innocence and freedom.
Written through the lens of her work with the Innocence Movement and her client Leigh Stubbs – a woman denied a fair trial in 2000 largely due to her sexual orientation – Manifesting Justice is like Just Mercy for women, the queer community, people of color, and their allies.
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About the book
Manifesting Justice
Valena Beety
Manifesting Justice focuses on the shocking story of Valena Beety’s client Leigh Stubbs—a young, queer woman in Mississippi who, because of her sexual orientation, was convicted of a horrific crime she did not commit. Beety weaves Stubbs’s harrowing narrative through the broader story of a broken criminal justice system where defendants—including disproportionate numbers of women of color and queer individuals—are convicted due to racism, prejudice, coerced confessions, and false identifications.
Drawing on interviews with both innocence advocates and wrongfully convicted women, along with Beety’s 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 process—it will transform our very ideas of crime and punishment, what innocence is, and who should be free.