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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.