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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450049303321

Autore

Lubet Steven

Titolo

Nothing but the truth [[electronic resource] ] : why trial lawyers don't, can't, and shouldn't have to tell the whole truth / / Steven Lubet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2001

ISBN

0-8147-5290-X

0-8147-6502-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Collana

Critical America

Disciplina

347.73/75

Soggetti

Law - United States

Trial practice - United States

Truthfulness and falsehood

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Biff and me : stories that are truer than true -- Edgardo Mortara : forbidden truths -- John Brown : political truth and consequences -- Wyatt Earp : truth and context -- Liberty Valance : truth or justice -- Atticus Finch : race, class, gender, and truth -- Sheila McGough : the impossibility of the whole truth.

Sommario/riassunto

Lubet's Nothing But The Truth presents a novel and engaging analysis of the role of storytelling in trial advocacy. The best lawyers are storytellers, he explains, who take the raw and disjointed observations of witnesses and transform them into coherent and persuasive narratives. Critics of the adversary system, of course, have little patience for storytelling, regarding trial lawyers as flimflam artists who use sly means and cunning rhetoric to befuddle witnesses and bamboozle juries. Why not simply allow the witnesses to speak their minds, without the distorting influence of lawyers' strata