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1 online resource (269 pages) |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 perverse results--the American public is reassured by the trial bar that the case is not "typical" and that our trial system remains the best in the world. William T. Pizzi here argues that what the public perceives is in fact exactly what the United States has: a trial system that places fa |
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About the Author |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
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Trial practice -- United States
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Criminal courts -- United States
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LAW / Trial Practice.
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Criminal courts
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Criminal justice, Administration of
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Trial practice
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814768709 |
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0814768709 |
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