After vacating 22 cases at once a month into Williams’ tenure, the reviews are now more individualized. The head of the Civil Rights Division now says the office can’t commit to vacating all non-unanimous cases.
A panel of appeals court judges appeared skeptical of the city’s arguments.
A similar bill last year was voted down in committee.
Jury trials have come almost to a complete halt over the past two years, creating a massive backlog of cases.
The Jerome “Big Duck” Smith Justice System Advisory committee was tasked with advising the council on criminal justice spending and policies.
The court will consider a 25-year-old murder case decided by a 10-2 jury.
Hutson says her reforms will bring mental health care into compliance with consent decree without requiring new facility.
Jackson was the subject of an investigation by The Lens and Al Jazeera Fault Lines into the ongoing legacy of the state's split-jury verdict law, years after it was repealed.
Jackson is one of hundreds of people still locked up more than three years after non-unanimous jury verdicts were outlawed in the state.
Dr. John Thompson was called by the defense this week, the fourth week of a month-long trial in the class-action suit.
