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

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

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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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Pizzi, William T.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1998]
©1998
Year of Publication:1998
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 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: WeakTrialJudges
  • 8. The Supreme Court: An Institutional Failure
  • 9. A Weak Trial System: Who Benefits?
  • 10. Juries: The Loss ofPublic Confidence
  • 11. Starting Down the Path to Reform
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • Index
  • About the Author

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