Jim Crow's Last Stand
Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana
A remnant of the racist post-Reconstruction Redeemer sociopolitical agenda, Louisiana's nonunanimous jury-verdict law permitted juries to convict criminal defendants with only nine, and later ten, out of twelve votes: a legal oddity. On the surface, it was meant to speed convictions. In practice, the law funneled many convicts-especially African Americans-into Louisiana's burgeoning convict lease system. Although it faced multiple legal challenges through the years, the law endured well after convict leasing had ended. Few were aware of its existence, let alone its original purpose. In fact, the original publication of Jim Crow's Last Stand w…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8071-7253-7
- EAN: 9780807172537
- Produktnummer: 32306701
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 215 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'124 KB
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Thomas Aiello
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