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Valena E. Beety

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Valena Elizabeth Beety is a law professor, wrongful convictions litigator, and former federal prosecutor who has exonerated the wrongfully convicted, secured presidential grants of clemency, and produced scholarship cited by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Her work centers the women and queer people most targeted by the U.S. criminal legal system.

Beety is the Robert McKinney Professor of Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law and a Founding Board Member of the Indiana Innocence Project. Her book Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights received a Gold Medal in Women’s Issues from the Independent Publishers Book Award, and her coursebook The Wrongful Convictions Reader is used in classrooms acros ...more

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Flash sale of Manifesting Justice - Kindle version

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Flash sale! You can get Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights on kindle for just $2.99. Hope you'll pick it up and give it a read!

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