Trials without truth
Subtitle: why our system of criminal trials has become an expensive failure and what we need to do to rebuild it
By: William T. Pizzi.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.; Trial practice -- United States.; Criminal courts -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-248) and index.
Table of contents: title: Soccer, football, and trial systems; title: Technicalities and truth : the exclusionary rule; title: Truth and the amount of evidence available at trial; title: Trial system in trouble; title: Discovering who we are : a look at four different trial systems; title: Criminal trials in the United States: trials without truth; title: Trials without truth : weak trial judges; title: The Supreme Court : an institutional failure; title: Weak trial system : who benefits?; title: Juries : the loss of public confidence; title: Starting down the path to reform.