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

by George Saliba

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814766498
• ISBN13: 9780814766491
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"