Author: Glanville Llewelyn Williams
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Category : Criminal procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Proof of Guilt
Author: Glanville Llewelyn Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The Proof of Guilt Study of the English Criminal Trial
Proof of guilt: a study of the English criminal trial, 3rd ed
The Proof of Guilt Study of the English Criminal Trial
The Proof of Guilt
Author: Glanville Llewelyn Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Criminal procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Proof Og Guilt
Author: Glanville Llewelyn Williams
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The Proof of Guilt. A Study of the English Criminal Trial
Author: Glanville Llewellyn WILLIAMS
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Conviction of the Guilty
Evidence of Guilt
Author: John MacArthur Maguire
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Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Origins of Reasonable Doubt
Author: James Q. Whitman
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300116004
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
To be convicted of a crime in the United States, a person must be proven guilty “beyond a reasonable doubt.” But what is reasonable doubt? Even sophisticated legal experts find this fundamental doctrine difficult to explain. In this accessible book, James Q. Whitman digs deep into the history of the law and discovers that we have lost sight of the original purpose of “reasonable doubt.” It was not originally a legal rule at all, he shows, but a theological one. The rule as we understand it today is intended to protect the accused. But Whitman traces its history back through centuries of Christian theology and common-law history to reveal that the original concern was to protect the souls of jurors. In Christian tradition, a person who experienced doubt yet convicted an innocent defendant was guilty of a mortal sin. Jurors fearful for their own souls were reassured that they were safe, as long as their doubts were not “reasonable.” Today, the old rule of reasonable doubt survives, but it has been turned to different purposes. The result is confusion for jurors, and a serious moral challenge for our system of justice.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300116004
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
To be convicted of a crime in the United States, a person must be proven guilty “beyond a reasonable doubt.” But what is reasonable doubt? Even sophisticated legal experts find this fundamental doctrine difficult to explain. In this accessible book, James Q. Whitman digs deep into the history of the law and discovers that we have lost sight of the original purpose of “reasonable doubt.” It was not originally a legal rule at all, he shows, but a theological one. The rule as we understand it today is intended to protect the accused. But Whitman traces its history back through centuries of Christian theology and common-law history to reveal that the original concern was to protect the souls of jurors. In Christian tradition, a person who experienced doubt yet convicted an innocent defendant was guilty of a mortal sin. Jurors fearful for their own souls were reassured that they were safe, as long as their doubts were not “reasonable.” Today, the old rule of reasonable doubt survives, but it has been turned to different purposes. The result is confusion for jurors, and a serious moral challenge for our system of justice.