why our system of criminal trials has become an expensive failure and what we need to do to rebuild it /
William T. Pizzi
New York :
New York University Press,
c1999
x, 257 p. ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-248) and index
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
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Criminal courts-- United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of-- United States.