Apologies and courtroom apologies -- The context of federal sentencing hearings -- What defendants say in response to their offenses -- Defendants talk about the past, the future, and the present : mitigations, future behavior, and the sentence -- Broad features of defendants' allocutions
Summary
Gruber examines 52 apologetic allocutions produced during federal sentencing hearings. Defendants raised the topics of the offence, mitigation, future behaviour, and the sentence in diverse ways, and this book explores the pros and cons associated with different forms
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 17, 2014)
