Trials Without Truth: Why Our System of Criminal Trials Has Become an Expensive Failure and What We Need to Do to Rebuild It

Acknowledgments

A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S I have written a book about the American trial system. But the book comes out of a decade of studying the trial systems in other countries. For that reason, I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to many people who have helped me with comparative research over the years. There are too many at this point to mention all of them, and I am sure I would end up leaving some out. But I must thank specifically Luca Marafioti, a professor at II University of Rome at Tor Vergata, and Walter Perron, a professor at the University of Mainz. I have coauthored articles with each of them and I learned a great deal in the process of working with two such knowledgeable scholars. I want also to thank Murray Richtel, a former faculty colleague, who went on the bench and has been one of the best trial judges in Colorado for the past twenty years. Murray read a draft of the book and gave me many helpful suggestions. I also very much appreciated his enthusiasm for what I was attempting to do in the book. I was aided enormously at all stages of this project by Jane Thompson, the faculty services librarian at the University of Colorado Law School, who always seemed able to find exactly what I wanted and get me a copy very quickly. I thank Ingrid Decker and Katrina Jones for their excellent research help as well. Finally, I would like to thank the faculty secretaries at the Law School for their help at every stage of the editing process. i x Chapter 1 is an expanded version of an essay, Soccer, Football and Trial Systems, which appeared in the Columbia Journal of European Law. I am grateful to the editors for permission to republish it. Acknowledgments x TRIALS W I T H O U T T R U T H ...