This episode is about the wrongful conviction of two lesbians in Mississippi accused of sexual assaulting another woman. The women were convicted and sentenced due to their sexual identity, and unreliable reporting by a man who claimed to be an expert in teeth analysis. Your host C.J. will set up the case and get you caught up and then she will interview Author/Teacher and former Attorney for the Innocence Project Valena Beety.

Valena's book: https://www.amazon.com/Manifesting-Justice-Wrongly-Convicted-Reclaim/dp/0806541512/ref=asc_df_0806541512?tag=bngsmtphsnus-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80264474559851&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4583863996408640&psc=1

Promo by: I'm a Sophisticate podcast

Intro: Black Moons by 126ers
Outro: Subtle Betrayal by SYBS

Resources:
https://reason.com/2007/08/02/indeed-and-without-a-doubt/#:~:text=Using%20the%20%22West%20Phenomenon%2C%22%20West%20once%20claimed%20to,teeth%20based%20on%20bite%20marks%20in%20the%20sandwich.
https://reason.com/2011/09/01/more-apparent-evidence-tamperi/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/28/forensics-bite-mark-junk-science-charles-mccrory-chris-fabricant
https://www.oxygen.com/crime-time/bitemark-analysis-junk-science#:~:text=Justice%20is%20not%20advanced%20through%20the%20introduction%20of,found%20that%20bite%20mark%20analysis%20lacks%20scientific%20validity.
http://www.wcjn.org/Leigh_Stubbs.html
https://www.newsweek.com/mississippi-hate-crime-law-could-expanded-include-lgbtq-disabled-groups-1674797
https://forensicdental.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/dentist-now-doubts-science-of-bite-analysis/
https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=5398
https://law.justia.com/cases/mississippi/supreme-court/2003/co7355.html

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