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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
Title:
Trials without truth : why our system of criminal trials has become an expensive failure and what we need to do to rebuild it
Author:
Pizzi, William T., 1943-
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : New York University Press, [1999]

©1999
Physical Description:
x, 257 pages ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
9780814766491
Format :
Book