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Virtual justice : the flawed prosecution of crime in America /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©1996.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Overview of the American criminal justice system
- Virtual legality in the field : fact gathering at the scene of the crime
- The magical moment of arrest : capture and custody
- The marvelous faculty of recognition : eyewitness identification of a suspect
- The exclusionary rule : the fabled doctrine, its baleful side effects, and a generally ignored technological remedy
- Stops of people and vehicles : some radical proposals to get the guns off the streets
- Privacy and privilege : defeating truth in the name of justice
- The right to counsel : dramatic, deceitful, and dilatory assistance
- Executive discretion : hard choices and the role of the prosecutor
- Plea bargaining : cheap crimes, costly trials
- Picking the jury : stacking the randomly drawn panel
- Character as a guide to conduct and credibility : a grotesque structure adorns the legal landscape
- Of witnesses and jurors : a tale of confidence and error
- Jury nullification : the insanity defense and other avoidances
- The judge : promoting the quest for truth in the adversary mode
- Conclusion.