Truth, error, and criminal law
Subtitle: an essay in legal epistemology
By: Larry Laudan.
Series: Cambridge studies in philosophy and law
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780521861663
Subjects: Judicial error -- Great Britain.; Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.; Criminal justice, Administration of -- Great Britain.; Criminal law -- Philosophy.; Judicial error -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Thinking about error in the law; title: The unraveling of reasonable doubt; title: Fixing the standard of proof; title: Innocence, the burden of proof, and the puzzle of affirmative defenses; title: Evaluating evidence and procedures; title: Silent defendants, silent witnesses, and lobotomized jurors; title: Confessions, poison fruit, and other exclusions; title: Double jeopardy and false acquittals : letting felons and judges off the hook?; title: Dubious motives for flawed rules : the clash between values.