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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2015]
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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.