Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2014
Keywords
criminal law, trials, juries
Abstract
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.
Publication Citation
44 Seton Hall Law Review 505 (2014).
Disciplines
Criminal Procedure
Digital Commons Citation
44 Seton Hall Law Review 505 (2014).