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Truth, error, and criminal law : an essay in legal epistemology /
- Title
- Truth, error, and criminal law : an essay in legal epistemology / Larry Laudan.
- Author
- Laudan, Larry.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 238 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in philosophy and law
- Subjects
- Contents
- Thinking about error in the law -- The unraveling of reasonable doubt -- Fixing the standard of proof -- Innocence, the burden of proof, and the puzzle of affirmative defenses -- Evaluating evidence and procedures -- Silent defendants, silent witnesses, and lobotomized jurors -- Confessions, poison fruit, and other exclusions -- Double jeopardy and false acquittals : letting felons and judges off the hook? -- Dubious motives for flawed rules : the clash between values.
- ISBN
- 9780521730358 (pbk.)
- 052173035X (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2008274401
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library