Valena Elizabeth Beety

Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Robert H. McKinney Professor of Law

211 S. Indiana Avenue

Bloomington, IN 47405

United States

Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law

Senior Research Fellow, Academy for Justice

111 E. Taylor Street

Phoenix, AZ 85004

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (33)

1.

Drug-Induced Homicide Defense Toolkit (2021 edition)

Ohio State Public Law Working Paper No. 467
Number of pages: 146 Posted: 11 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2021
Northeastern University - School of Law, Health in Justice Action Lab, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Northern Kentucky University - Salmon P. Chase College of Law, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Northeastern University - School of Law; Northeastern University - Bouvé College of Health Sciences
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drug-induced homicide, drug-induced death, drug delivery resulting in death, strict liability, DIH, DDRD

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What the Brain Saw: The Case of Trayvon Martin and the Need for Eyewitness Identification Reform

Denver University Law Review, Vol. 90:2, 2012
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 27 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2019
Valena Elizabeth Beety
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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Don't Shoot: Police and Overcoming Implicit Racial Bias

WVU Law Research Paper No. 2014-5
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 12 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2020
Valena Elizabeth Beety
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Downloads 424 (135,763)

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implicit racial bias, police, law enforcement, gun-owners, guns, safety

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Evidence on Fire

97 North Carolina Law Review 483 (2019)
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 21 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2019
Valena Elizabeth Beety and Jennifer D. Oliva
Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Downloads 414 (139,665)

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Evidence, Fire Science, Arson, Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure, Daubert, Kumho Tire, Expert, Forensic

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Miscarriages of Justice: Litigating Beyond Factual Innocence

Number of pages: 92 Posted: 28 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2023
Valena Elizabeth Beety, Karen Newirth and Karen Thompson
Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Newirth Law, PLLC and ACLU of New Jersey
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innocence, wrongful convictions, miscarriage of justice, misconduct, police, prosecutors, evidence, forensic, bias, cumulative, holistic review, AEDPA, criminal, habeas, post-conviction

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Voices on Innocence

68 Florida Law Review 1569 (2016)
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 15 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2019
Belmont University - College of Law, University of San Francisco, Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, University of Toledo College of Law and University of Mississippi School of Law
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innocence, plea bargain, factual innocence, exoneration, wrongful conviction, evidence, experts, prosecutors, accountability, punishment, restorative justice

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Discovering Forensic Fraud

112 Northwestern University Law Review 121 (2017)
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 06 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2019
Jennifer D. Oliva and Valena Elizabeth Beety
Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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forensics, discovery, wrongful conviction, evidence, civil procedure, criminal procedure

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Policing Pregnancy 'Crimes'

98 New York University Law Review Online 29 (2023), UC San Francisco Research Paper No. Forthcoming
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 11 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2023
Valena Elizabeth Beety and Jennifer D. Oliva
Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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pregnancy, evidence, policing, substance use disorder, forensic evidence, Roe, Dobbs

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Regulating Bite Mark Evidence: Lesbian Vampires and Other Myths of Forensic Odontology

94 Washington Law Review 1769 (2019)
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 01 May 2019 Last Revised: 28 May 2021
Jennifer D. Oliva and Valena Elizabeth Beety
Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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expert evidence, evidence, forensic science, wrongful convictions, innocence, bite marks, forensic odontology, regulatory boards, state boards of dental practice, state professional licensing boards, lesbian vampires

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Considering ‘Machine Testimony’: The Impact of Facial Recognition Software on Eyewitness Identifications

Duquesne University Law Review, Vol. 60, No. 271, 2022
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 09 Aug 2022
Valena Elizabeth Beety
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Downloads 190 (309,175)

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forensic science, eyewitness identification, machine testimony, evidence, algorithms

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The Overdose/Homicide Epidemic

34 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 983 (2018)
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 22 May 2018 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2019
Valena Elizabeth Beety
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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forensic science, evidence, criminal law, overdose, opioids, death investigation, coroner, medical examiner, forensics, mass incarceration, drug-induced homicide

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Cops in Lab Coats and Forensics in the Courtroom

Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2016
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 06 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2019
Valena Elizabeth Beety
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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forensics, police, criminal, mass incarceration, wrongful convictions, innocence

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Wrongful Convictions and the National Academy of Sciences: From Forensics to Eyewitness Identification

82 TENN. L. REV. 975 (2015)
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 05 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2019
Valena Elizabeth Beety
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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forensics, eyewitness, police, courtroom, evidence

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Criminality and Corpulence: Weight Bias in the Courtroom

11 Seattle J. for Soc. Just. 523 (2013)
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 30 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2019
Valena Elizabeth Beety
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Downloads 173 (336,115)

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obesity, fatism, criminal justice, defendant, victim

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Prosecuting Opioid Use, Punishing Rurality

Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 79, 2019
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 12 Nov 2019
Valena Elizabeth Beety
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Downloads 171 (339,592)
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rural, criminal, justice, opioid, crisis, overdose, courts, drug-induced homicide, prosecution

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Judicial Dismissal in the Interest of Justice

Missouri Law Review, Vol. 80, No. 3, 2015
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 26 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2020
Valena Elizabeth Beety
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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mass incarceration, judicial clemency, dismissal in the interest of justice

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Reframing Asylum Standards for Mutilated Women

Journal of Gender, Race and Justice, Vol. 11, No. 239, 2008
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 30 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2017
Valena Elizabeth Beety
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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female genital mutilation, immigration, asylum, social group persecution, political persecution, sexual harm

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Vulnerable Populations in the Context of COVID-19: Foreword to the Arizona State Law Journal Online Symposium

2 Arizona State Law Journal Online 69 (2020)
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 09 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 14 Nov 2020
Valena Elizabeth Beety and Jennifer D. Oliva
Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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Mississippi Initiative 26: Personhood and the Criminalization of Intentional and Unintentional Acts by Pregnant Women

Mississippi Law Journal, Vol. 81, p. 55, 2011
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 28 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2019
Valena Elizabeth Beety
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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personhood, personhood amendment, Mississippi, abortion, unborn

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Forensic Evidence in Arizona: Reforms for Victims and Defendants

52 Ariz. St. L. J. 709 (2021)
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 02 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2021
Valena Elizabeth Beety
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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forensic, evidence, criminal, justice, police, lab, victim, defendant, prosecutor, scientific

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Pretrial Dismissal in the Interest of Justice: A Response to COVID-19 and Protest Arrests

University of Chicago Law Review Online (Nov. 16, 2020)
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 10 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2020
Valena Elizabeth Beety
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Downloads 96 (529,330)

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protest, police, police violence, COVID-19, justice, prosecutors, defense, judges, equity

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Contemporary Perspectives on Wrongful Conviction: An Introduction to the 2015 Innocence Network Conference, Orlando, Florida

3 Tex. A&M L. Rev. 179 (with Valena Beety and Robert Schehr) (2015)
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 02 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2019
Robert Schehr, Aliza B. Kaplan and Valena Elizabeth Beety
Northern Arizona University - Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Lewis & Clark Law School and Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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Changed Science Writs and State Habeas Relief

Houston Law Review, Vol. 57, No. 483, 2020
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 07 Nov 2020
Valena Elizabeth Beety
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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Forensic, Evidence, Criminal, AEDPA, Post-Conviction, Habeas

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Changing the Culture of Disclosure and Forensics

Washington and Lee Law Review Online, Vol. 73, No. 2, 2017
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 06 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2017
Valena Elizabeth Beety
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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forensics, wrongful convictions, innocence, discovery, evidence, Brady, disclosure

The Death Penalty: Ethics and Economics in Mississippi

Mississippi Law Journal, Vol. 81, No. 1437, 2012
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 10 Sep 2020
Valena Elizabeth Beety
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Downloads 61 (695,039)

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Death Penalty, Wrongful Conviction, Innocence, Criminal, Justice, Mississippi

The Death Penalty: Ethics and Economics in Mississippi

Mississippi Law Journal, Vol. 81, No. 6, 2012
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 05 Sep 2020
Valena Elizabeth Beety
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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Risk and Execution: The Local Impact of Capital Cases on Mississippi Counties

82 Miss. L.J. 1337 (2013)
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 21 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2019
Valena Elizabeth Beety
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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death penalty, Mississippi, criminal justice, capital cases

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Legal Support for Victim Compensation Funds for Police Violence Victims

21 Nevada Law Journal 953 (2021)
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 16 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2022
Valena Elizabeth Beety
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Downloads 72 (627,125)
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victim compensation funds, victims, violence, police, use of force

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Compensating Victims of Police Violence

Emory Law Journal, Vol. 70, 2021
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 02 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2021
Valena Elizabeth Beety
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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police, victim, compensation, criminal, justice, shooting

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COVID-19 and Criminal Justice: Foreword to the Chicago Law Review Online Symposium

University of Chicago Law Review Online, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2020
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 02 Aug 2021
Valena Elizabeth Beety and Brandon L. Garrett
Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Duke University School of Law
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COVID-19, criminal justice, prisons, policing

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Contemporary Perspectives on Wrongful Conviction: An Introduction to the 2016 Innocence Network Conference, San Antonio, Texas

Hofstra Law Review, Vol. 45, No. 2, 2016
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 02 Oct 2019
Gwen Jordan, Aliza B. Kaplan, Valena Elizabeth Beety and Keith A. Findley
University of Illinois at Springfield, Lewis & Clark Law School, Indiana University Maurer School of Law and University of Wisconsin Law School
Downloads 40 (813,991)

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wrongful conviction, innocence, criminal, justice

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Emergence From Civil Death: The Evolution of Expungement in West Virginia

West Virginia Law Review, Vol. 117, No. 63, 2015
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 02 Oct 2019
Valena Elizabeth Beety, Honorable Michael J. Aloi and Evan John
Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Government of the United States of America - Northern District of West Virginia and West Virginia University - College of Law
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expungement, clemency, criminal, conviction

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Remarks on Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights

Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 43, No. 2, 2023, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 507
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 21 Jun 2023
Amber Baylor, Valena Elizabeth Beety and Susan P. Sturm
Columbia Law School, Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Columbia Law School
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forensic evidence, wrongful conviction, innocence project, domestic violence, sexual violence, intersectional biases, gender bias, racial bias

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Introduction to the West Virginia Law Review Flawed Forensics and Innocence Symposium

West Virginia Law Review, Vol. 119, No. 101, 2016
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 02 Oct 2019
Valena Elizabeth Beety
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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forensics, evidence, criminal, justice, legal, science, innocence

Other Papers (1)

Total Downloads: 42
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wrongful convictions; innocence; process; criminal law; criminal justice; appeals