Valena Beety

Gebundenes Buch

Manifesting Justice

Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights

Beschreibung

"From a former federal prosecutor turned champion of the wrongfully convicted, this powerful and profound book follows the stories of women reclaiming their freedom and creates a new blueprint for remaking our deeply flawed criminal legal system." -- Inside front jacket flap.

Autor

Valena Beety is a former federal prosecutor and innocence litigator who represented Leigh Stubbs in post-conviction. 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 Governor’s Indigent Defense Commission.  She is currently a Professor of Law at Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and the Deputy Director of the Academy for Justice, a criminal justice center at the law school that 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. Visit her online at ValenaBeety.com. With a foreword by Koa Beck, author of White Feminism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kensington Publishing Corporation
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 162mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780806541518
• ISBN-10: 0806541512
• Artikelnr.: 62580555