NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund: U.S. Supreme Court Rules That State Juries Must Require Unanimous Verdicts for Conviction
April 21, 2020
April 21, 2020
NEW YORK, April 21 -- The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund issued the following news release on April 20:
The United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of the plaintiff in Ramos v. Louisiana, establishing that the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of a unanimous jury verdict applies to the states through the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), which filed an amicus brief in this case in June 2019, applauds the . . .
The United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of the plaintiff in Ramos v. Louisiana, establishing that the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of a unanimous jury verdict applies to the states through the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), which filed an amicus brief in this case in June 2019, applauds the . . .