The tilted playing field : is criminal justice unfair? / H. Richard Uviller.

Includes index.

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Introduction: Metaphorically Speaking -- 1. Level Playing Fields and the Idea of Fairness -- 2. Discretion and the Advantage of Initiation: Choosing a Target, Bringing a Charge -- 3. Access to Information, First- and Secondhand: You Are What You Know -- 4. Voucher and the Virtue of Office: The White-Hat Factor -- 5. Burdens and Presumptions: Rescue from the Quandary of Perhaps -- 6. The Blessing of Bankroll: Financial Disparity and the Riddle of Bail -- 7. Excluding Adverse Evidence: Truth or Justice? -- 8. Appealability and the Ordeal of Jeopardy: Capitalization of Error -- 9. Truth Telling and the Limits of Ethical License: Counsel's Tolerable Deceptions -- 10. Jury Irrationality and Its Insulation: Arousing the Unimpeachable Impulse.

"Although evenly matched adversaries make for a more exciting athletic contest, and a level playing field is essential to a fair game, is the same true in a criminal trial? In this book, H. Richard Uviller argues that a criminal trial is not analogous to a sporting event. Prosecutors and defense attorneys are, in critical respects, different from each other, and the allocation of advantages to each must be uneven in order to be fair." "In a lively exploration of the powers of the prosecutor and the prerogatives of the defense, Uviller asks where our criminal justice system is fair though unequal and where its inequalities may subvert fair results. Uviller concludes that although the overall criminal justice system reflects a fair distribution of advantages and disadvantages, in certain areas the imbalance is so severe as to undermine justice. He offers realistic, carefully considered recommendations for reform in these problem areas."--Jacket.

English.

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