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

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Beginning with the premise that the principal function of a criminal trial is to find out the truth about a crime, Larry Laudan examines the rules of evidence and procedure that would be appropriate if the discovery of the truth were, as higher courts routinely claim, the overriding aim of the criminal justice system. Laudan mounts a systematic critique of existing rules and procedures that are obstacles to that quest. He also examines issues of error distribution by offering the first integrated analysis of the various ...

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Truth, Error, and Criminal Law: An Essay in Legal Epistemology 2008, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521730358

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Truth, Error, and Criminal Law: An Essay in Legal Epistemology 2006, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521861663

Hardcover