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 - innocence litigator, activist, and founder of the West Virginia Innocence Project Valena H. Beety examines the failures in America's criminal legal system and the reforms necessary to eliminate wrongful convictions--particularly with regards to women, the queer community, and people of color... When Valena Beety first became a federal prosecutor, her goal was to protect victims, especially women, from cycles of violence. What she discovered was that not only did prosecutions often fail to help victims, they frequently relied on false information, forensic fraud, and police and prosecutor misconduct. Seeking change, Beety began working in the Innocence Movement, helping to free factually innocent people through DNA testing and criminal justice reform. Manifesting Justice focuses on the shocking story of Beety's client Leigh Stubbs--a young, queer woman in Mississippi, convicted of a horrific crime she did not commit because of her sexual orientation. 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. With a Foreword by Koa Beck, author of White Feminism
The Comforting Spirit and Socioeconomically Marginalized Believers The Old Testament describes God as defender of justice (Deut 10:18; 24:17; 27:19; 32:4; Isa 5:7; Jer 4:2; 7:5–6; 22:3–4; Ezek 18:5–9; Amos 5:24; Mic 6:8; Zech 7:9–10).
Indeed, President Xi Jinping recently told Kim Jong Un that he was willing to work with the North Korean leader for world peace - which I'm sure President Xi will do :) Love and Light / 老天保佑 Mark O'Doherty / BTB-Global Peacebuilding ...
To manifest justice in the West , it is important that issues of procedure are dealt with firmly , and this alone strongly guarantees that justice is done ; however , it is also possible to legally conceal a crime or commit an evil act ...
... and, while the devil held sway, God continued to manifest himself and sustain all (including the evil angels) in existence. ... it was important for God to redeem not through power, but by manifesting justice – and only then power.
MANIFESTING. JUSTICE. LET. LIFE. ASTONISH. YOU. Asserting that you can forgive, but will not forget, is only masking that you will not forgive. Forgetting doesn't mean a lesson hasn't been learned, it means not dwelling on the pain it ...
How, Carol asked Ferguson, could the judge have this information? “Counselor told her that this appeared to be very common knowledge,” Ferguson wrote in her report, “that many people had made the same statement unsolicited.
18 Soloveitchik's discussion, in a sense, anticipates or at least alludes to the events that typify part of what is known as the Forman Thesis (Forman, 1971). Paul Forman argued that the achievements in new areas of science in Weimar ...
Life Eternal: Past - Present - Future
The material of this book is indispensable for anyone who wishes to understand the real spiritual roots of Western civilization.