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Reconstructing reality in the courtroom

by W. Lance Bennett

Trial practiceCriminal procedureForensic oratoryCriminal EvidenceEvidence, CriminalLaw, united states, historyCriminal justice, administration of

The authors suggest that the American criminal trial is organized around storytelling. To document the validity of this theory, they make use of data from more than sixty trials covering a variety of offenses ranging from shoplifting to murder

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Book data: Open Library