EPISODE · Feb 15, 2023 · 54 MIN
Free Tasha Shelby
from The Short Fuse Podcast · host Valena Beety, Tasha Shelby, Elizabeth Howard, Alex Waters
Free Tasha Shelby is the website where you can learn more about Tasha's case. To support Tasha:Governor Tate Reeves: C Governor’s office, call 601-359-3150/ email [email protected] Fitch, Mississippi Attorney General: 601.359.3680/P.O. Box 220, Jackson MS 3920Valena Beety is a law professor, an innocence litigator, and a former federal prosecutor. She has exonerated wrongly convicted clients, founded the West Virginia Innocence Project, and obtained presidential grants of clemency for drug offenses. She served as an appointed commissioner on the West Virginia Governor's Indigent Defense Commission. She is currently a professor of law at Arizona State University's Sandra Day O' Connor College of Law and the deputy director of the Academy for Justice, a criminal justice center at the law school.VTasha Mercedes Shelby is a writer and an advocate for incarcerated women. Tasha was wrongly convicted of a crime that did not occur on June 16, 2000 in Biloxi, Mississippi. In her twenty-two years of incarceration, she has earned her GED, taken classes at Millsaps College through the Prison to College Pipeline, and developed as a writer and as an artist. She continues to fight her wrongful conviction and you can learn more about her struggle at Free Tasha Shelby.Alex Waters is the technical producer, audio editor and engineer for the Short Fuse Podcast. He is a music producer and a student at Berklee College of Music. He has written and produced music and edited for podcasts including The Faith and Chai Podcast and Con Confianza. He writes, produces and records music for independent artists, including The Living. He lives in Brooklyn can can be reached at [email protected] with inquiries.
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In October ELIZABETH HOWARD was in conversation with VALENA BEETY, lawyer and advocate for TASHA SHELBY who for decades has been proclaiming her innocence in the death of her two-and-a-half-year-old stepson who had a seizure and fell out of his bed. Mississippi State Medical Examiner Dr. Leroy Riddick testified at her trial, in 2000, that “the child was violently shaken to death – that is undisputed.” In 2017, Dr. Riddick issued a statement saying he had made a mistake. Last week the Federal Magistrate Judge released a Report and Recommendation denying Tasha relief. The Judge said Tasha should have filed before her federal timeline expired in 2003 and dismissed Dr. Riddick’s findings as not strong enough to demonstrate actual innocence and get beyond the time bar. Tasha called us from the Mississippi Correctional Facility to talk about this news. She needs our help.
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