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You Can't Handle The Truth! Trial Juries And Credibility, Renée M. Hutchins Jan 2014

You Can't Handle The Truth! Trial Juries And Credibility, Renée M. Hutchins

Faculty Scholarship

Every now and again, we get a look, usually no more than a glimpse, at how the justice system really works. What we see—before the sanitizing curtain is drawn abruptly down—is a process full of human fallibility and error, sometimes noble, more often unfair, rarely evil but frequently unequal.

The central question, vital to our adjudicative model, is: How well can we expect a jury to determine credibility through the ordinary adversary processes of live testimony and vigorous impeachment? The answer, from all I have been able to see is: not very well.


Kaley V. United States: Sanctifying Grand Jury Determinations And Marginalizing The Right To Counsel Of Choice, Laura Merkey Jan 2014

Kaley V. United States: Sanctifying Grand Jury Determinations And Marginalizing The Right To Counsel Of Choice, Laura Merkey

Maryland Law Review

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Compulsory Dna Collection And A Juvenile's Best Interests, Kevin Lapp Jan 2014

Compulsory Dna Collection And A Juvenile's Best Interests, Kevin Lapp

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

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