Unreasonable doubt
Subtitle: circumstantial evidence and the art of judgment
By: Norma Thompson
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9781589880726
Subjects: Trials, litigation; Jury; Trials (Murder); Jury in literature; Philosophy; History
Description: "A murder trial ends in a hung jury because of the reasonable doubt of a few jurors who, faced with circumstantial evidence, refuse to judge the accused. Thompson confronts this evasion of judgment through the reexamination of the works of Faulkner, Austen, Tocqueville, Plato, and Aristotle"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Originally published with subtitle: Circumstantial evidence and an ordinary murder in New Haven. Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Two murders, one trial; title: The trial; title: Deliberation; title: My literary jurors; title: Final arguments.