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Author Burns, Robert P., 1947-

Title A theory of the trial / Robert P. Burns.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1999]
©1999

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Description 1 online resource (247 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Received View of the Trial -- Trial's Linguistic Practices -- Trial's Constitutive Rules -- An Interpretation from One Trial -- Trial's Most Basic Features and Some Observed Consequences -- Thinking What We Do -- Two Sides of the Trial Event -- Truth of Verdicts.
Summary "Anyone who has sat on a jury or followed a high-profile trial on television usually comes to the realization that a trial, particularly a criminal trial, is really a performance. Verdicts seem determined as much by which lawyer can best connect with the hearts and minds of the jurors as by what the evidence might suggest. In this celebration of the American trial as a great cultural achievement, Robert Burns, a trial lawyer and a trained philosopher, explores how these legal proceedings bring about justice. The trial, he reminds us, is not confined to the impartial application of legal rules to factual findings. Burns depicts the trial as an institution employing its own language and styles of performance that elevate the understanding of decision-makers, bringing them in contact with moral sources beyond the limits of law."--Jacket.
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Subject Trials -- United States.
Trials.
United States.
Judicial process -- United States.
Judicial process.
Justice, Administration of -- United States.
Justice, Administration of.
Indexed Term Jura Jura.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Burns, Robert P., 1947- Theory of the trial. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1999 (DLC) 98054175
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