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Unreasonable doubt : circumstantial evidence and an ordinary murder in New Haven / Norma Thompson.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Thompson, Norma, 1959-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Trials (Murder)--Connecticut--New Haven.
Trials (Murder).
Jury--Connecticut--History.
Jury.
Jury--Philosophy.
Jury in literature.
Bazier, Anthony--Trials, litigation, etc.
Bazier, Anthony.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (222 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2006.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
"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.
Contents:
Two murders, one trial
The trial
Deliberation
My literary jurors
Final arguments.
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-193) and index.
ISBN:
0-8262-6537-5
OCLC:
560209493

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