Alliance for Justice: Ramos Decision Promotes Equal Justice Under Law
April 22, 2020
April 22, 2020
WASHINGTON, April 22 -- The Alliance for Justice issued the following statement on April 20:
Alliance for Justice applauds the Supreme Court's opinion Monday that ends non-unanimous jury verdicts in Louisiana and Oregon, the only two U.S. states still implementing a decades-old practice steeped in racism and unequal justice. In Ramos v. Louisiana, the Court ruled that the Sixth Amendment requires that juries must come to unanimous decisions in order to convict defendants of serious . . .
Alliance for Justice applauds the Supreme Court's opinion Monday that ends non-unanimous jury verdicts in Louisiana and Oregon, the only two U.S. states still implementing a decades-old practice steeped in racism and unequal justice. In Ramos v. Louisiana, the Court ruled that the Sixth Amendment requires that juries must come to unanimous decisions in order to convict defendants of serious . . .