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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Aiello, Thomas, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.