As a result of recent scandals concerning evidence and proof in the administration of criminal justice - ranging from innocent people on death row in the United

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Winner of the Scribes Book Award “Displays a level of intellectual honesty one rarely encounters these days...This is delightful stuff.” —Barton Swaim, Wa

A leading expert in informal logic, Douglas Walton turns his attention in this new book to how reasoning operates in trials and other legal contexts, with speci