Exonerations occur when a person convicted of a crime is officially cleared based on new evidence of innocence. Since 1989, there […]
Writing & Media
My opinion pieces about crime and justice have been published in USA Today, the Arizona Republic, and other news outlets. In my own writing and discussions with journalists, I focus on people who are harmed in our criminal legal system, both victims and defendants.
Indiana Law faculty member’s book honored with IPPY, other awards
Professor Valena Beety’s Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights won the Gold Medal in Women’s Issues. Since 1997, the Independent Publisher Book Awards have been recognizing the best independently published books each year.
Why has Brenda Andrew been on death row for two decades? It has everything to do with sex
Brenda Andrew was sentenced to death in Oklahoma County in 2004 for the murder of her husband. Her crime was not so unique to explain her sentence
Manifesting Justice Wins 2 Prestigious Book Awards
Each year, the Eric Hoffer Award presents the Montaigne Medal to the most thought-provoking books. These are books that either illuminate, progress, or redirect thought. The Montaigne Medal is given in honor of the great French philosopher Michel de Montaigne, who influenced people such as William Shakespeare, René Descartes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Eric Hoffer.
Manifesting Justice: Winner of the Eric Hoffer Award Montaigne Medal
Each year, the Eric Hoffer Award presents the Montaigne Medal to the most thought-provoking books. These are books that either illuminate, progress, or redirect thought. The Montaigne Medal is given in honor of the great French philosopher Michel de Montaigne, who influenced people such as William Shakespeare, René Descartes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Eric Hoffer.
Article in NACDL The Champion: Miscarriages of Justice, Litigating Beyond Factual Innocence
A Guide From the Academy for Justice’s Miscarriages of Justice Initiative How are stakeholders finding relief for miscarriages of justice? Advocates have created a guide that gathers in one place new and creative offensive tools for consideration by post-conviction litigators, prosecutors, the wrongfully convicted, policy advocates, judges, and legislators.
ABA Criminal Justice Section: Book Discussion on Manifesting Justice
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.
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