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The eighteenth-century model of the criminal trial - with its insistence that the defendant and the facts of a case could 'speak for themselves' - was abandoned in 1836, when legislation enabled barristers to address the jury on behalf of prisoners charged with felony. Increasingly, professional acts of interpretation were seen as necessary to achieve a just verdict, thereby silencing the prisoner and affecting the testimony given by eye witnesses at criminal trials. Jan-Melissa Schramm examines
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- Author
- Jan-Melissa Schramm
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780511034213
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Victorian Era (1837 1901), History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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