Download or read book The Death of the American Trial written by Robert P. Burns and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American trial looms large in our collective imagination - witness the enormous popularity of Law Order - but it is, in reality, almost extinct. In 2002, less than 2 percent of federal civil cases culminated in a trial, down from 12 percent forty years earlier. And the number of criminal trials also dropped dramatically, from 9 percent of ca...