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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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Autore: Pizzi William T. <1943-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: 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 Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York ; ; London, : New York University Press, c1999
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (269 p.)
Disciplina: 345.7305
Soggetto topico: Criminal justice, Administration of - United States
Trial practice - United States
Criminal courts - United States
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-248) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Soccer, football, and trial systems -- Technicalities and truth : the exclusionary rule -- Truth and the amount of evidence available at trial -- Trial system in trouble -- Discovering who we are : a look at four different trial systems -- Criminal trials in the United States: trials without truth -- Trials without truth : weak trial judges -- The Supreme Court : an institutional failure -- Weak trial system : who benefits? -- Juries : the loss of public confidence -- Starting down the path to reform.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 far too mu
Titolo autorizzato: Trials without truth  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8147-6870-9
0-585-42497-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910814125203321
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