The decision will impact around 1,500 cases.
Tag: Split-jury verdicts
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Bill to create parole panel for people in prison on split-jury convictions on hold
Amendments sought by criminal justice reform groups meet resistance over fears of opposition from powerful prosecutors’ organization.
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State Supreme Court hears case that could overturn hundreds of split-jury convictions
Reginald Reddick was convicted of murder by a non-unanimous jury. Though split juries were ruled unconstitutional, hundreds of old split-jury convictions are still considered valid.
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Louisiana Supreme Court to hear oral arguments in case that could determine if hundreds with split-jury verdicts are entitled to new trials
Advocates for prisoners convicted by split juries worry that a bill moving through the legislature could provide an excuse for the court to dodge the issue.
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Orleans DA’s review of split-jury convictions has slowed since last year, but office maintains it’s making progress
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.
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Bill filed at legislature aims to grant new trials to people in prison with non-unanimous convictions
A similar bill last year was voted down in committee.
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Louisiana Supreme Court to hear case that could determine fate of hundreds convicted by split juries
The court will consider a 25-year-old murder case decided by a 10-2 jury.
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Brandon Jackson, convicted of armed robbery in split-jury vote, granted parole
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The Lens and Al Jazeera Fault Lines into the ongoing legacy of the state’s split-jury verdict law, years after it was repealed.
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Brandon Jackson, convicted in split-jury verdict in Bossier Parish, to go before parole board on Friday
Jackson is one of hundreds of people still locked up more than three years after non-unanimous jury verdicts were outlawed in the state.
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Brandon Jackson, convicted of robbery in split-jury vote, given new parole hearing
Jackson was convicted of robbery in a 10-2 vote. Since split verdicts were declared unconstitutional last year, he has been fighting his conviction in court. But the state parole board may offer him an alternative path to freedom.