The Tilted Playing Field: Is Criminal Justice Unfair?

by H. Richard Uviller

Book Overview

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 compelling new 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030018302X
• ISBN13: 9780300183023
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"