Trials without truth : why our system of criminal trials has become an expensive failure and what we need to do to rebuild it / William T. Pizzi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pizzi, William T., 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Trial practice--United States.

Trial practice.

Criminal courts--United States.

Criminal courts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : New York University Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 mu

Contents:

Soccer, football, and trial systems

Technicalities and truth : the exclusionary rule

Truth and the amount of evidence available at trial

Trial system in trouble

Discovering who we are : a look at four different trial systems

Criminal trials in the United States: trials without truth

Trials without truth : weak trial judges

The Supreme Court : an institutional failure

Weak trial system : who benefits?

Juries : the loss of public confidence

Starting down the path to reform.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-248) and index.

ISBN:

0-8147-6870-9

0-585-42497-7

OCLC:

780425931