Deadly Dilemmas

Date

2008

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Volume Title

Publisher

Texas Tech Law Review

Abstract

Examines the conventional perspective and later finds it gravely wanting. While the prospect of convicting or executing a truly innocent person is horrifying, this type of mistake occurs within a highly complicated matrix of relationships where other equally horrifying mistakes go unnoticed in the conventional discourse. Highlights that the choices facing society involve a series of deadly dilemmas in which one horrible risk is balanced against another, and the choices that are made invariably trade off the most profound of interests against equally profound, and often identical, interests on the other side.

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Keywords

Analysis of legal errors, True and false convictions, Dworkin's language, Ronald Dworkin

Citation

Ronald J. Allen and Larry Laudan, Deadly Dilemmas, 41 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 65 (2008-2009)