LINK Supreme Court Rules Non-Unanimous Jury Verdicts in Criminal Cases Unconstitutional – Reason.com
"...the implementation of Louisiana's and Oregon's non-unanimous convictions were deeply and openly rooted in racism. They were designed so that black members of the jury could be overruled by white jurors to convict black defendants. It's not even a controversial interpretation of what happened. Leaders in the states who pushed these jury rules were very open about it at the time."
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