Brief filed: 06/18/2019
Documents
Ramos v. Louisiana
United States Supreme Court; Case No. 18-5924
Prior Decision
Decision below 231 So.3d 44 (La.App. 4 Cir. Nov. 2, 2017)
Argument(s)
Non-unanimous juries are fundamentally different and less deliberative than the Sixth Amendment requires. Non-unanimous juries also fundamentally skew the decision of whether to exercise the jury trial right. The pernicious racial origins of the non-unanimity rule further undermine the Sixth Amendment jury trial right.
Author(s)
Timothy P. O’Toole, Aiysha S. Hussain, and Sarah A. Dowd, Miller & Chevalier Chartered, Washington, DDC; Barbara E. Bergman, NACDL, Tucson, AZ.
