Cargando…
Jim Crow's Last Stand : Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana /
The last remnant of the racist Redeemer agenda in Louisiana's legal system, the nonunanimous jury-verdict law permits juries to convict criminal defendants with only ten out of twelve votes. A legal oddity among southern states, the ordinance has survived multiple challenges since its ratificat...
| Autor principal: | |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2015]
|
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
MARC
| LEADER | 00000cam a22000004a 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | musev2_39822 | ||
| 003 | MdBmJHUP | ||
| 005 | 20230905044158.0 | ||
| 006 | m o d | ||
| 007 | cr||||||||nn|n | ||
| 008 | 140507s2015 lau o 00 0 eng d | ||
| 010 | |z 2014018039 | ||
| 020 | |a 9780807159002 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)908232582 | ||
| 040 | |a MdBmJHUP |c MdBmJHUP | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a Aiello, Thomas, |d 1977- |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Jim Crow's Last Stand : |b Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana / |c Thomas Aiello. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Baton Rouge : |b Louisiana State University Press, |c [2015] | |
| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2015 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©[2015] | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (184 pages). | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a The plight of Frank Johnson -- The politics of transfer -- The creation of convict lease -- The triumph of the redeemers -- The whisper in the crowd -- The burden of precedent -- The vagaries of due process -- The decision in Johnson -- The ghost in the machine -- The trial of Derrick Todd Lee. | |
| 520 | |a The last remnant of the racist Redeemer agenda in Louisiana's legal system, the nonunanimous jury-verdict law permits juries to convict criminal defendants with only ten out of twelve votes. A legal oddity among southern states, the ordinance has survived multiple challenges since its ratification in 1880. Despite the law's long history, few are aware of its existence, its original purpose, or its modern consequences. At a time when Louisiana's penal system has fallen under national scrutiny, Jim Crow's Last Stand presents a timely, penetrating, and concise look at the history of this law's origins and its troubling legacy. The nonunanimous jury-verdict law originally allowed a guilty verdict with only nine juror votes, funneling many of those convicted into the state's burgeoning convict lease system. Yet the law remained on the books well after convict leasing ended. Historian Thomas Aiello describes the origins of the statute in Bourbon Louisiana - a period when white Democrats sought to "redeem" their state after Reconstruction - its survival through the civil rights era of the 1950s and 1960s, and the Supreme Court's decision in Johnson v. Louisiana (1972), which narrowly validated the state's criminal conviction policy. -- from dust jacket. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a Jury. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00985072 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Discrimination in criminal justice administration. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00895034 | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice penale |z Louisiane |x Histoire. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Discrimination in criminal justice administration |z Louisiana |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Jury |z Louisiana. | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Louisiana. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01207035 | |
| 655 | 7 | |a History. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Electronic books. |2 local | |
| 710 | 2 | |a Project Muse. |e distributor | |
| 830 | 0 | |a Book collections on Project MUSE. | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |z Texto completo |u https://projectmuse.uam.elogim.com/book/39822/ |
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - Custom Collection | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2015 Complete | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2015 US Regional Studies, South | ||