U.S. Supreme Court finds Oregon's nonunanimous jury verdicts ...

Oregon Supreme Court Strikes Down Nonunanimous Jury Verdicts

The Oregon Supreme Court last month invalidated hundreds of felony convictions obtained under a 1934 law designed to exclude people of color from meaningful ...

Non-unanimous Jury Verdicts: the Ramos and Watkins Decisions

Ackley, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled that the Ramos ruling applies retroactively (going backwards) under state law. This means that anyone who had a non ...

Oregon Supreme Court Determines Unanimous Jury Requirement ...

In 1972, in Apodaca v. Oregon, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Oregon's non-unanimous jury verdicts. Oregon continued to ...

Non-Unanimous Jury Law in Oregon

In 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Ramos v. Louisiana, banned non-unanimous jury verdicts in criminal cases in both federal and state courts.

The Supreme Court outlawed split juries, but hundreds remain in ...

In 2020, the Supreme Court struck down laws that allowed people in Louisiana and Oregon to be convicted even if two jurors voted not guilty.

Hundreds of Oregon criminal convictions overturned due to ...

Hundreds of Oregon criminal convictions overturned due to nonunanimous jury verdicts, Supreme Court decides · Updated: Feb. 22, 2023, 9:01 a.m. ...

How Two States Differ on the Injustice of Non-Unanimous Juries

If you took a break from the news over the holidays, there's a good chance you missed a ruling by the Oregon Supreme Court that all state ...

Oregon takes reins in justice reform over non-unanimous criminal ...

Oregon's top court decided on Dec. 30 that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision requiring unanimous verdicts for serious crimes applies ...

Oregon Supreme Court Rejects Hundreds of Convictions by ...

The Oregon Supreme Court ruled today that all prisoners convicted by nonunanimous juries must have their cases reconsidered.

US Supreme Court Ruling Ends Oregon's Non-unanimous Jury ...

The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Monday that the US Constitution requires unanimous jury verdicts to convict defendants in state criminal courts.

'Dirty secret' of Oregon jury system could go before U.S. Supreme ...

... American man in Portland made last year when he asked a Multnomah Circuit. Court judge for a retrial following his non-unanimous jury conviction ...

U.S. Supreme Court finds Oregon's nonunanimous jury verdicts ...

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that nonunanimous juries violate the US Constitution and overturned the conviction of a Louisiana man convicted of murder.

Hundreds serving time in Oregon prisons eligible for new trial, state ...

The Oregon Supreme Court has ruled that people convicted by nonunanimous juries have the right to a new trial. Before the U.S. Supreme Court ...

Oregon Supreme Court says people convicted by split juries ...

“Oregon discarded the common-law unanimous guilty verdict requirement … precisely becauseit can prevent racial, religious, and other such ...

Oregon Supreme Court Upholds Non-Unanimous Acquittals in ...

As criminal defendants have always had the right to acquittal by a jury vote of 10-2, the decision in Ross will not have the immediate wide-ranging consequences ...

Oregon's nonunanimous jury system struck down by U.S. Supreme ...

Oregon's decades-long practice of allowing split verdicts to convict felony defendants came to an end Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court ...

Oregon Supreme Court rules criminal convictions from ... - Jurist.org

The Oregon Supreme Court ruled Friday that all state criminal convictions which resulted from nonunanimous jury verdicts are invalid.

Court rules Oregon must allow for new trials in split jury cases - KGW

The Oregon Supreme Court ruling applies to state cases with non-unanimous jury verdicts where a criminal conviction was final and the ...

US Supreme Court bans nonunanimous jury verdicts in Oregon

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Until Monday, Oregon was the only state that still allowed nonunanimous jury convictions. The U.S. Supreme Court ended that ...

Hundreds of split jury cases getting second day in court across Oregon

Oregon voters voted in ...