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The Trial
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Author : Sadakat Kadri
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2007-12-18
The Trial written by Sadakat Kadri and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with Law categories.
For as long as accuser and accused have faced each other in public, criminal trials have been establishing far more than who did what to whom–and in this fascinating book, Sadakat Kadri surveys four thousand years of courtroom drama. A brilliantly engaging writer, Kadri journeys from the silence of ancient Egypt’s Hall of the Dead to the clamor of twenty-first-century Hollywood to show how emotion and fear have inspired Western notions of justice–and the extent to which they still riddle its trials today. He explains, for example, how the jury emerged in medieval England from trials by fire and water, in which validations of vengeance were presumed to be divinely supervised, and how delusions identical to those that once sent witches to the stake were revived as accusations of Satanic child abuse during the 1980s. Lifting the lid on a particularly bizarre niche of legal history, Kadri tells how European lawyers once prosecuted animals, objects, and corpses–and argues that the same instinctive urge to punish is still apparent when a child or mentally ill defendant is accused of sufficiently heinous crimes. But Kadri’s history is about aspiration as well as ignorance. He shows how principles such as the right to silence and the right to confront witnesses, hallmarks of due process guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, were derived from the Bible by twelfth-century monks. He tells of show trials from Tudor England to Stalin’s Soviet Union, but contends that “no-trials,” in Guantánamo Bay and elsewhere, are just as repugnant to Western traditions of justice and fairness. With governments everywhere eroding legal protections in the name of an indefinite war on terror, Kadri’s analysis could hardly be timelier. At once encyclopedic and entertaining, comprehensive and colorful, The Trial rewards curiosity and an appreciation of the absurd but tackles as well questions that are profound. Who has the right to judge, and why? What did past civilizations hope to achieve through scapegoats and sacrifices–and to what extent are defendants still made to bear the sins of society at large? Kadri addresses such themes through scores of meticulously researched stories, all told with the verve and wit that won him one of Britain’s most prestigious travel-writing awards–and in doing so, he has created a masterpiece of popular history.
The Trial
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Author : Robert Whitlow
language : en
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Release Date : 2006-05-28
The Trial written by Robert Whitlow and has been published by Thomas Nelson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-28 with Fiction categories.
A lawyer ready to die takes one final case...the trial of his life. Attorney Kent "Mac" MacClain has nothing left to live for. Nine years after the horrific accident that claimed the life of his wife and two sons, he's finally given up. His empty house is a mirror for his empty soul, it seems suicide is his only escape. And then the phone rings. Angela Hightower, the beautiful heiress and daughter of the most powerful man in Dennison Springs, has been found dead at the bottom of a ravine. The accused killer, Peter Thomason, needs a lawyer. But Mac has come up against the Hightowers and their ruthless, high-powered lawyers before -- an encounter that left his practice and reputation reeling. The evidence pointing to Thomason's guilt seems insurmountable. Is Mac defending an ingenious psychopath, or has Thomason been framed--possibly by a member of the victim's family? It comes down to one last trial. For Thomason, the opponent is the electric chair. For Mac, it is his own tormented past--a foe that will prove every bit as deadly.
The Trial America The Castle Metamorphosis In The Penal Settlement The Great Wall Of China Investigations Of A Dog Letter To His Father The Diaries 1910 23
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Author : Franz Kafka
language : en
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Release Date : 1976
The Trial America The Castle Metamorphosis In The Penal Settlement The Great Wall Of China Investigations Of A Dog Letter To His Father The Diaries 1910 23 written by Franz Kafka and has been published by Harvill Secker this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with German fiction categories.
This volume contains the great works of fiction as well as the complete diaries and thus gives the reader considrable insight into the mind of this strange and powerful man.
The Trial
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Author : Charlotte Mary Yonge
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2017-12-06
The Trial written by Charlotte Mary Yonge and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-06 with Fiction categories.
Reproduction of the original.
The Trial
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Author : Charlotte Mary Yonge
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-10
The Trial written by Charlotte Mary Yonge and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10 with categories.
The Trial
The Trial
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Author : Charlotte Mary Yonge
language : en
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Release Date : 2007-10-01
The Trial written by Charlotte Mary Yonge and has been published by IndyPublish.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-01 with Fiction categories.
A Theory Of The Trial
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Author : Robert P. Burns
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2001-10-08
A Theory Of The Trial written by Robert P. Burns and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-10-08 with Law categories.
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. Burns explores the rich narrative structure of the trial, beginning with the lawyers' opening statements, which establish opposing moral frameworks in which to interpret the evidence. In the succession of witnesses, stories compete and are held in tension. At some point during the performance, a sense of the right thing to do arises among the jurors. How this happens is at the core of Burns's investigation, which draws on careful descriptions of what trial lawyers do, the rules governing their actions, interpretations of actual trial material, social science findings, and a broad philosophical and political appreciation of the trial as a unique vehicle of American self-government.
The Trial On Trial Volume 1
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Author : R A Duff
language : en
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Release Date : 2004-12-31
The Trial On Trial Volume 1 written by R A Duff and has been published by Hart Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-31 with Law categories.
This book is questions whether the discovery of truth is the central aim of the rules and practices of criminal investigation and trial.
The Trial On Trial Volume 3
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Author : R A Duff
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2007-11-20
The Trial On Trial Volume 3 written by R A Duff and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-20 with Law categories.
The criminal trial is under attack. Traditional principles have been challenged or eroded; in England and Wales the right to trial by jury has been restricted and rules concerning bad character evidence, double jeopardy and the right to silence have been substantially altered to "rebalance" the system in favour of victims. In the pursuit of security, particularly from terrorism, the right to a fair trial has been denied to some altogether. In fact trials have for a long time been an infrequent occurrence, most criminal convictions being the consequence of a guilty plea. Moreover, while this very public struggle over the future of the criminal trial is conducted, there is also a less publicly observed controversy about the significance of trials in modern society. Trials are under normative attack, their value being doubted by those who seek different kinds of process - conciliatory or restorative - to address the needs of victims and move away from the imposition of state power through trials and punishments. This book seeks to develop a normative theory of the criminal trial as a way of defending the importance of trials in our criminal justice system. The trial, it is suggested, calls defendants to answer a charge and, if they are criminally responsible, to account for their conduct. The trial is seen as a communicative process through which the defendant can challenge claims of wrongdoing made against him, including the norms in the light of which those claims are made. The book develops this communicative theory by first making a careful study of the history of trials, before moving on to outline the theory, which is then developed through chapters looking at the practices and principles of trials, alternative regulatory models, the roles of participants, the relationship between investigation and trial and trials as public fora.
The Trial On Trial Volume 2
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Author : R A Duff
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2006-04-05
The Trial On Trial Volume 2 written by R A Duff and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-05 with Law categories.
What are the aims of a criminal trial? What social functions should it perform? And how is the trial as a political institution linked to other institutions in a democratic polity? What follows if we understand a criminal trial as calling a defendant to answer to a charge of criminal wrongdoing and, if he is judged to be responsible for such wrongdoing, to account for his conduct? A normative theory of the trial, an account of what trials ought to be and of what ends they should serve, must take these central aspects of the trial seriously; but they raise a number of difficult questions. They suggest that the trial should be seen as a communicative process: but what kinds of communication should it involve? What kind of political theory does a communicative conception of the trial require? Can trials ever actually amount to more than the imposition of state power on the defendant? What political role might trials play in conflicts that must deal not simply with issues of individual responsibility but with broader collective wrongs, including wrongs perpetrated by, or in the name of, the state? These are the issues addressed by the essays in this volume. The third volume in this series, in which the four editors of this volume develop their own normative account, will be published in 2007.
