Unreasonable doubt [electronic resource] : circumstantial evidence and an ordinary murder in New Haven / Norma Thompson.

By: Thompson, Norma, 1959-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2006Description: xi, 207 pSubject(s): Bazier, Anthony -- Trials, litigation, etc | Trials (Murder) -- Connecticut -- New Haven | Jury -- Connecticut -- History | Jury -- Philosophy | Jury in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 345.746/802523 LOC classification: KF224.B29 | T48 2006Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Two murders, one trial -- The trial -- Deliberation -- My literary jurors -- Final arguments.
Summary: "A murder trial ends in a hung jury because of the reasonable doubt of a few jurors who, faced with circumstantial evidence, refuse to judge the accused. Thompson confronts this evasion of judgment through the reexamination of the works of Faulkner, Austen, Tocqueville, Plato, and Aristotle"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-193) and index.

Two murders, one trial -- The trial -- Deliberation -- My literary jurors -- Final arguments.

"A murder trial ends in a hung jury because of the reasonable doubt of a few jurors who, faced with circumstantial evidence, refuse to judge the accused. Thompson confronts this evasion of judgment through the reexamination of the works of Faulkner, Austen, Tocqueville, Plato, and Aristotle"--Provided by publisher.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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