Unreasonable Doubt: Circumstantial Evidence and the Art of Judgment by Thompson, Norma
Unreasonable Doubt: Circumstantial Evidence and the Art of Judgment by Thompson, Norma

Unreasonable Doubt: Circumstantial Evidence and the Art of Judgment

"Part detective story, part social commentary, part intellectual autobiography, part philosophical analysis, this is a jury book...
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Author: Norma Thompson
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Language: English
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Unreasonable Doubt: Circumstantial Evidence and the Art of Judgment by Thompson, Norma

Unreasonable Doubt: Circumstantial Evidence and the Art of Judgment

$69.46
Unreasonable Doubt: Circumstantial Evidence and the Art of Judgment by Thompson, Norma

Unreasonable Doubt: Circumstantial Evidence and the Art of Judgment

$69.46
Author: Norma Thompson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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"Part detective story, part social commentary, part intellectual autobiography, part philosophical analysis, this is a jury book unlike any other."--Anthony Kronman, Sterling Professor of Law and former dean, Yale Law School

"[Norma Thompson] teaches us, brilliantly and painlessly, why judging, as opposed to simply knowing, is an essential part of a responsible human existence, recounting the trials and crimes and moral dilemmas of antiquity and classical tradition in a stunningly original reading."--Abraham D. Sofaer, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and former United States district judge

In 2001, Norma Thompson served on the jury in a murder trial in New Haven, Connecticut. In Unreasonable Doubt, Thompson dramatically depicts the jury's deliberations, which ended in a deadlock. As foreperson, she pondered the behavior of some of her fellow jurors that led to the trial's termination in a hung jury. Blending personal memoir, social analysis, and literary criticism, she addresses the evasion of judgment she witnessed during deliberations and relates that evasion to contemporary political, social, and legal affairs. She then assembles an imaginary jury of Alexis de Tocqueville, Plato, and Jane Austen, among others, to show how the writings of these authors can help model responsible habits of deliberation.

Norma Thompson is senior lecturer in humanities and associate director of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. She is the author most recently of The Ship of State: Statecraft and Politics from Ancient Greece to Democratic America.



Author: Norma Thompson
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
Published: 12/27/2011
Pages: 207
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781589880726

About the Author
Norma Thompson: Norma Thompson is Senior Lecturer in the Humanities and Associate Director of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. She is the author or editor of several books, most recently The Ship of State: Statecraft and Politics from Ancient Greece to Democratic America.
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