Human error -- Devaluation of freedom -- Defense of falsity -- Emergence and glory of adversarial combat -- Alone with no evidence -- Convictions without truth -- The lost dialectic -- Trials without facts -- Procedures over evidence -- The danger of speaking truthfully -- A new procedure : the search for truth -- Conclusion : the plea of innocence
Summary:
"Providing the first fundamental reform of its kind for the adversarial legal system, The Plea of Innocence introduces a new method through which to free innocent people from prison, a search for truth through the discovery of exonerating facts"-- Provided by publisher.
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