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

Larry Laudan

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Legal processes and jurisprudence Criminal Law and Policy Criminal Law and Evidence

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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.

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