Accuracy and fairness—Siamese twins? A Comment on Sa-rah Summers «Epistemic Ambitions of the Crimina...

WEIGEND, THOMAS, EDITOR. Accuracy and fairness—Siamese twins? A Comment on Sa-rah Summers «Epistemic Ambitions of the Criminal Trial: Truth, Proof, and Rights» [artículos de revistas]. 2023. Publicado en: Quaestio facti. Revista internacional sobre razonamiento probatorio, n.5 , 189-199

The author agrees with Sarah Summers’ view that a criminal judgment in a system of fair justice should be substantively accurate and at the same time should be the result of a fair process. The author argues, however, for keeping these two requirements apart because they are linked to different goals and may in individual cases conflict with each other.