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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| Rating | : | 4.85 (810 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814766501 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 257 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Truth at Last, but is Anyone Listening A Customer Having served as a judge in a large city for the last seven years, I can tell you that this book is exactly on point. Sadly, though, few are willing to engage in the public policy debate Professor Pizzi's book ought to trigger. Pizzi exposes the failures of our criminal justice system with a clean straight-forward style t. Pizzi shows the problems in the system This is an excellent book by a scholar interested in "thinking outside the box." Pizzi looks at the problems with the American criminal justice system's excessive preoccupation with procedural issues at the expense of substantive justice. The book is an excellent read for anyone who thinks that there has to be a better wa. Finally Krista Ruth Amazing book and so true. What in the world happend to our trial system? Excellent excellent reading of how and why our trial system has turned into nonsense.
William T. J. 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. 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.. Reginald Denny. O. By comparing and contrasting the U.S. Simpson. Colin Ferguson. 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 bring
In a cogent, direct argument, Pizzi inveighs against the triumph of the law of unintended consequences over the law of practicality. In this sense, Pizzi echoes his University of Colorado colleague Paul Campos (Jurismania). Pizzi's background as a former federal prosecutor may lead him to downplay the severity of police abuses in this country, yet his argument's ultimate grounding in perspectives gleaned from his research in comparative criminal law makes his book an important work. The main problem, in his eyes, is that the system is too preoccupied with judicial procedure and too little concerned with the truth. He carefully articulates the sad state of the criminal trial system, laying blame primarily on Supreme Court decisions relating to criminal procedure. He suggests that fact-finders be appointed to determine a defendant's guilt. From Publishers Weekly Pizzi believes that the American system of criminal trials is badly in need of repair. Comparing the