Alliance for Justice: Ramos Decision Promotes Equal Justice Under Law
May 21, 2020
May 21, 2020
WASHINGTON, May 21 -- The Alliance for Justice issued the following statement on May 20 by President Nan Aron:
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 defe . . .
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 defe . . .