The Jim Crow Convictions’

What 'Edwards V. Vannoy' Case Means For People Convicted ... - NPR

The court already declared these Jim Crow jury laws unconstitutional in April. What's at stake now is whether that should be retroactive, ...

Supreme Court rejects challenge to convictions under "racist Jim ...

The Supreme Court said Monday that an earlier ruling that declared felony convictions by non-unanimous juries were unconstitutional and a pillar of the Jim ...

Al Jazeera English's Fault Lines investigates The Jim Crow ...

In The Jim Crow Convictions, Fault Lines and The Lens confirmed that the two jurors who voted to acquit Jackson were Black. In an interview, one ...

Louisiana Just Made a Major Stride in Ending Jim Crow in the State

UPDATE (11/06/2018): Amendment 2 passes, ending the Jim Crow-era practice of allowing felony convictions without a unanimous jury. Louisiana ...

The Jim Crow Convictions: Rayshaud Green's story - Facebook

This man was incarcerated for 12 years in the US state of Louisiana despite the fact that two jurors in his trial voted not to convict him. Watch the...

Fault Lines on X: "“The Jim Crow Convictions," which investigated ...

The Jim Crow Convictions," which investigated the racist past and ongoing impact of non-unanimous jury convictions in Louisiana, ...

Beyond the New Jim Crow: Public Support for Removing and ...

In The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander drew national attention to the extensive imposition of collateral consequences on those convicted of a crime and to ...

People convicted by "Jim Crow juries" still incarcerated ... - YouTube

Until just a few years ago, people accused of a crime in Louisiana could be convicted by a non-unanimous jury. 60 Minutes+ reports on the ...

The New Jim Crow's Equal Protection Potential

The New Jim Crow has also been cited to explain the unfair collateral consequences faced by those convicted of drug crimes, as well as convictions' dis-.

Alston & Bird Pro Bono Win Overcomes Jim Crow Law Regarding ...

Vannoy. The case involved Louisiana prisoner Trent Wells, who was convicted at age 19 of forcible rape and burglary by a non-unanimous jury and ...

Jim Crow's Last Stand - The Atlantic

This meant that a split jury—a verdict of 11–1 or 10–2—could convict a defendant to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The law ...

Racial Critiques of Mass Incarceration: Beyond the New Jim Crow

While the Jim Crow analogy is most compelling as applied to those convicted of crimes, it applies more broadly as well. Just as Jim Crow defined blacks as ...

Jim Crow's Lasting Legacy At The Ballot Box - The Marshall Project

Unable to explicitly ban black voters without violating federal law, the resulting state constitution declared persons “convicted of a felony ...

The New Jim Crow - The American Prospect

Ex-offenders are routinely stripped of essential rights. Current felon-disenfranchisement laws bar 13 percent of African American men from ...

In Louisiana, a fight to end a Jim Crow-era jury law is on the ballot

Because of a Jim Crow-era statute, a person in Louisiana can be convicted of a felony and sentenced to prison, even life without parole, ...

The History And Impact Of Non-Unanimous Jury Decisions | KUNC

That's why more than 1,500 people in Louisiana are still imprisoned on non-unanimous verdicts — a law that originated in the Jim Crow era to “ ...

Jim Crow justice: Should non-unanimous convictions be overturned?

The Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees criminal defendants the right to a fair trial, part of which means verdicts ...

Jim Crow laws - Jim Crow: Now & Then

Being arrested for a minor offense, and facing an all white jury and judge led to many convictions, often with inflated charges. In addition to this African ...

The History And Impact Of Non-Unanimous Jury Decisions - KRPS

That's why more than 1,500 people in Louisiana are still imprisoned on non-unanimous verdicts — a law that originated in the Jim Crow era to “ ...

'The Jim Crow Convictions': The History And Impact Of Non ... - WRKF

That's why more than 1,500 people in Louisiana are still imprisoned on non-unanimous verdicts — a law that originated in the Jim Crow era to “ ...