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Valena Beety

Faculty bibliography for Professor Beety

Publications

Valena Beety

Robert H. McKinney Professor of Law


Books

THE OTHERS IN THE COURTROOM: INNOCENCE ADVOCATES, Kensington Press (forthcoming 2025).

THE WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS READER, 2nd ed. (with Russell Covey). Carolina Academic Press, 2023. 

MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE: LITIGATING BEYOND FACTUAL INNOCENCE (with Karen Newirth & Karen Thompson). Academy for Justice, 2023. [SSRN]

MANIFESTING JUSTICE: WRONGLY CONVICTED WOMEN RECLAIM THEIR RIGHTS. Kensington Press, 2022.

SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE, 6th ed. (with Paul C. Giannelli, Edward J. Imwinkelried, Jane Campbell Moriarty & Andrea Roth). LexisNexis, 2022.

 

Articles

Policing Pregnancy "Crimes" (with Jennifer Oliva), 98 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW ONLINE 29 (2023). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Considering “Machine Testimony”: The Impact of Facial Recognition Software on Eyewitness Identifications, 60 DUQUESNE LAW REVIEW 271 (2022). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Legal Support of Victim Compensation Funds for Victims of Police Violence, 21 NEVADA LAW JOURNAL 953 (2021). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Compensating Victims of Police Violence, 70 EMORY LAW JOURNAL ONLINE 47 (2021). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Pretrial Dismissal in the Interest of Justice: A Response to COVID-19 and Protest Arrests, 2020 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW REVIEW ONLINE (Nov. 16, 2020). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Forensic Evidence in Arizona: Reforms for Victims and Defendants, 52 ARIZONA STATE LAW JOURNAL 709 (2020). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Changed Science Writs and State Habeas Relief, 57 HOUSTON LAW REVIEW 483 (2020). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Regulating Bite Mark Evidence: Lesbian Vampires and Other Myths of Forensic Odontology (with Jennifer Oliva), 94 WASHINGTON LAW REVIEW 1769 (2019). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Prosecuting Opioid Use, Punishing Rurality, 79 OHIO STATE LAW JOURNAL 741 (2019). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Drug-Induced Homicide: Challenges and Strategies in Criminal Defense (with Leo Beletsky & Alex Kreit), 70 SOUTH CAROLINA LAW REVIEW 707 (2019). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Evidence on Fire (with Jennifer Oliva), 97 NORTH CAROLINA LAW REVIEW 483 (2019). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

The Overdose/Homicide Epidemic, 34 GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 983 (2018). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Discovering Forensic Fraud (with Jennifer Oliva), 112 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 121 (2017). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Changing the Culture of Disclosure and Forensics, 73 WASHINGTON & LEE LAW REVIEW ONLINE 580 (2017). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Voices on Innocence (with Lucian Dervan, Richard Leo, Meghan Ryan, Gregory Gilchrist, & William Berry), 68 FLORIDA LAW REVIEW 1569 (2017). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Identifying the Culprit in Wrongful Convictions, 82 TENNESEE LAW REVIEW 975 (2015). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Judicial Dismissal in the Interest of Justice, 80 MISSOURI LAW REVIEW 629 (2015). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Emergence from Civil Death: The Evolution of Expungement in West Virginia (with the Honorable John Michael Aloi, U.S. Magistrate Judge, N.D.W.Va. and Evan Johns), 117 WEST VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW ONLINE 63 (2015).

What the Brain Saw: The Case of Trayvon Martin and the Need for Eyewitness Identification Reform, 90 DENVER UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 331 (2013). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Risk and Execution: The Local Impact of Capital Cases on Mississippi Counties, 82 MISSISSIPPI LAW JOURNAL 133 (2013). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Criminality and Corpulence: Weight Bias in the Courtroom, 11 SEATTLE JOURNAL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE 523 (2012-2013). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

The Death Penalty in Mississippi: Ethics and Economics, 81 MISSISSIPPI LAW JOURNAL 1437 (2012). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Mississippi Initiative 26: Personhood and the Criminalization of Intentional and Unintentional Acts by Pregnant Women, 81 MISSISSIPPI LAW JOURNAL SUPRA 55 (2011). [SSRN]

Reframing Asylum Standards for Mutilated Women, 11 JOURNAL OF GENDER RACE & JUSTICE 239 (2008). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

 

Book Chapters

Criminalizing Sexual Identities: Queer, Female, and Wrongfully Convicted, in THE (MIS)REPRESENTATION OF QUEER LIVES IN TRUE CRIME (Abbie E. Goldberg, Danielle C. Slakoff, & Carrie L. Buist, eds.). New York: Routledge, 2024.

Forensic Pattern Comparison Evidence (with Jane Campbell Moriarty & Andrea Roth) in REFERENCE MANUAL ON SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE, 4th ed. (National Research Council and Federal Judicial Center). The National Academies Press, forthcoming 2024.

Wrongful Convictions of Queer People: Where Bias Meets Faulty Forensic Evidence, in WHAT IS A CRIMINAL? ANSWERS FROM INSIDE THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM (Katherine S. Gaudet, ed.). Routledge, 2022.

 

Book Reviews

Book Review. Daniel Medwed, BARRED: WHY THE INNOCENT CAN'T GET OUT OF PRISON, 4 WRONGFUL CONVICTION LAW REVIEW 95 (2023). [HeinOnline]

Book Review. COPS IN LAB COATS and Forensics in the Courtroom: Sandra Guerra Thompson, COPS IN LAB COATS: CURBING WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS THROUGH INDEPENDENT FORENSIC LABORATORIES, 13 OHIO STATE JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW 543 (2016). [HeinOnline]

 

Editorials & Commentaries

An Introduction to the 2023 Innocence Project Just Data Symposium, WRONGFUL CONVICTION LAW REVIEW (forthcoming 2024).

Remarks on MANIFESTING JUSTICE: WRONGFULLY CONVICTED WOMEN RECLAIM THEIR RIGHTS (with Amber Baylor & Susan Sturm), 43 COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF GENDER AND LAW 134 (2022-2023). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Keynote Address for "Innocent Behind Bars: A Symposium on Over-Criminalization, 17 LAW JOURNAL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE 3 (2023). 

Time to ACT UP in the Wake of Dobbs (with Jennifer Oliva), SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER (June 26, 2022). 

The Texas Courts Have Spared Melissa Lucio’s Life. Now She Can Prove Her Innocence, USA TODAY (Apr. 22, 2022).

We All Lose if Brittney Griner is Left to Languish in a Russian Prison, ARIZONA REPUBLIC (March 14, 2022).

Arizona Bill Would End an Effort to Stop Racial Bias in Jury Selection Before it Begins (with Henry F. Fradella, Jessica M. Salerno, Cassia C. Spohn and Shi Yan), ARIZONA REPUBLIC (Feb. 22, 2022).

Traumatized Witnesses and Victims of Police Violence Get Shut Out of Compensation Funds (with Njeri Rutledge), USA TODAY (May 4, 2021).

Police Review Board Must Represent the Most-Affected Communities (with Frank Rudy Cooper), THE ARIZONA CAPITOL TIMES (July 1, 2020).

Vulnerable Populations in the Context of COVID-19: Forward to the Arizona State Law Journal Virtual Symposium (with Jennifer Oliva), 2 ARIZONA STATE LAW JOURNAL ONLINE 69 (2020). [SSRN]

COVID-19 and Criminal Justice: Forward to the Chicago Law Review Virtual Symposium (with Brandon L. Garrett), 2020 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW REVIEW ONLINE 1 (Nov. 16, 2020). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Contemporary Perspectives on Wrongful Conviction: An Introduction to the 2018 Innocence Network Conference Scholarship Panel Articles (with Stephanie Hartung), 11 NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 589 (2019). [HeinOnline

Prison Labor is Modern Slavery, THE GLOBE POST (Sept. 6, 2018).

Will the Federal Government Enforce the Fourteenth Amendment at 150 Years, 17 INSIGHTS ON LAW AND SOCIETY 12 (2017). [HeinOnline]

Race to Death: A Critical Look at the Death Penalty as Arkansas Executes Eight, JURIST (March 29, 2017).

Justice Antonin Scalia’s Rebuke of Innocence, OXFORD HUMAN RIGHTS HUB (March 8, 2016).

Flawed Forensics and Innocence, CHARLESTON GAZETTE-MAIL (Mar. 6, 2016).

Introduction to the West Virginia Law Review Flawed Forensics and Innocence Symposium, 119 WEST VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW 101 (2016). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Contemporary Perspectives on Wrongful Conviction: An Introduction to the 2016 Innocence Network Conference, San Antonio (with Aliza Kaplan, Keith Findley, and Gwen Jordan), 45 HOFSTRA LAW REVIEW 365 (2016). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

New Books in Forensics: Cops in Lab Coats, Reviewed by Valena Beety, FORENSICS FORUM (November 5, 2015).

Contemporary Perspectives on Wrongful Conviction: An Introduction to the 2015 Innocence Network Conference, Orlando, Florida (with Aliza Kaplan and Robert Schehr), 3 TEXAS A&M LAW REVIEW 179 (2015). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

After Ferguson: What Can We Do?, CHARLESTON GAZETTE-MAIL (Nov. 30, 2014).

Protecting West Virginia's Innocent (with Ifeoma Ike), 2013 WEST VIRGINIA LAWYER 30 (2013). [HeinOnline]

Buffey Case Shows W.Va. Must Record Police Interrogations, CHARLESTON GAZETTE-MAIL (Dec. 20, 2012).

The Cost of Death, JACKSON FREE PRESS (July 14, 2010).

Georgia Rape Case Dismissed Because of Victim’s Sexual History?, FEMINISTING (May 15, 2008).