Trials Without Truth: Why Our System of Criminal Trials Has Become an Expensive Failure and What We Need to Do to Rebuild It - Couverture rigide

Pizzi, William T.

 
9780814766491: Trials Without Truth: Why Our System of Criminal Trials Has Become an Expensive Failure and What We Need to Do to Rebuild It
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ISBN 10 : 0814766498 ISBN 13 : 9780814766491
Editeur : New York University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Uncovers a major deficiency of U.S. criminal justice--a trial system that prioritizes winning over truth

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 much emphasis on winning and not nearly enough on truth, one in which the abilities of a lawyer or the composition of a jury may be far more important to the outcome of a case than any evidence.

How has a system on which Americans have lavished enormous amounts of energy, time, and money been allowed to degenerate into one so profoundly flawed?

Acting as an informal tour guide, and bringing to bear his experiences as both insider and outsider, prosecutor and academic, Pizzi here exposes the structural faultlines of our trial system and its paralyzing obsession with procedure, specifically the ways in which lawyers are permitted to dominate trials, the system's preference for weak judges, and the absurdities of plea bargaining. By comparing and contrasting the U.S. system with that of a host of other countries, Trials Without Truth provides a clear-headed, wide-ranging critique of what ails the criminal justice system--and a prescription for how it can be fixed.

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À propos de l?auteur

William T. Pizzi is Professor of Law at the University of Colorado and a former federal prosecutor.

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Éditeur
New York University Press
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0814766498
ISBN 13 
9780814766491
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
257
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0814766501 ISBN 13 :  9780814766507
Editeur : New York University Press, 2000
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