Truth, Error, and Criminal Law: An Essay in Legal Epistemology

ISBN: 9780521730358 出版年：2006 页码：256 Laudan Cambridge University Press

1. Thinking about error in the law 2. The unraveling of reasonable doubt 3. Fixing the standard of proof 4. Innocence, the burden of proof, and the puzzle of affirmative defenses 5. Evaluating evidence and procedures 6. Silent defendants, silent witnesses, and lobotomized jurors 7. Confessions, poison fruit, and other exclusions 8. Double jeopardy and false acquittals: letting felons and judges off the hook? 9. Dubious motives for flawed rules: the clash between values.