The Appeal
“Even when the science has changed, even when there’s proof that false evidence was presented at trial, it’s still so so hard to reverse the conviction,” said Valena Beety, a member of Shelby’s legal team and deputy director of the Academy for Justice at Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.
“Prosecutors will still fight to uphold the conviction,” Beety said, “even when there’s no reliability to it.”