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A theory of the trial /

"Anyone who has sat on a jury or followed a high-profile trial on television usually comes to the realization that a trial, particularly a criminal trial, is really a performance. Verdicts seem determined as much by which lawyer can best connect with the hearts and minds of the jurors as by wha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burns, Robert P., 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Received View of the Trial
  • The Trial's Linguistic Practices
  • The Trial's Constitutive Rules
  • An Interpretation from One Trial
  • The Trial's Most Basic Features and Some Observed Consequences
  • Thinking What We Do
  • The Two Sides of the Trial Event
  • The Truth of Verdicts.