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Trials Without Truth : Why Our System of Criminal Trials Has Become an Expensive Failure and What We Need to Do to Rebuild It.

Reginald Denny. O.J. Simpson. Colin Ferguson. Louise Woodward: all names that have cast a spotlight on the deficiencies of the American system of criminal justice. Yet, in the wake of each trial that exposes shocking behavior by trial participants or results in counterintuitive rulings--often with p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pizzi, William T.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 1998.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Soccer, Football, and Trial Systems; 2. Technicalities and Truth: The Exclusionary Rule; 3. Truth and the Amount of Evidence Available at Trial; 4. A Trial System in Trouble; 5. Discovering Who We Are: A Look at Four Different Trial Systems; 6. Criminal Trials in the United States: Trials without Truth; 7. Trials without Truth: Weak Trial Judges; 8. The Supreme Court: An Institutional Failure; 9. A Weak Trial System: Who Benefits?; 10. Juries: The Loss of Public Confidence; 11. Starting Down the Path to Reform; Notes; Further Readings; Index.