U.S. Supreme Court,
Criminal,
Constitutional Law
May 6, 2020
A chance to loosen the past’s stronghold on our criminal justice system
Last month the U.S. Supreme court ruled that the 6th Amendment requires a unanimous verdict in serious criminal cases; on Monday, the court granted certiorari in a case to decide whether the rule applies retroactively.
Hadar Aviram
Professor
UC Hastings College of the Law
200 McAllister St
San Francisco , CA 94102-4978
Phone: (415) 581-8890
Fax: (415) 565-4685
Email: aviramh@uchastings.edu
Hebrew Univ, Jerusalem
Hadar is author of "Yesterday's Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole" (University of California Press, 2020).
Forty-eight states and the federal government require a unanimous jury decision for conviction. Until recently, two states -- Louisiana and Oregon -- allowed for non-unanimous convictions. The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled these practices were unconstitutional in Ramos v. Louisiana (2020), an opinion divided on the merits and risks of setting aside stare decisis -- ...
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