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@ProPublica@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

What One Man’s 45-Year-Old Case Tells Us About the “Jim Crow Juries” Haunting Louisiana
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Today, a split verdict would mean a mistrial. But in 1980s Louisiana, when nonunanimous juries were still legal, 19-year-old Lloyd Gray, a Black man, was sentenced to prison for life — even though the only two Black jurors had voted not guilty.
https://www.propublica.org/article/lloyd-gray-louisiana-split-juries-history?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Louisiana#Crime#Law#Courts#Prison

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@ArenaCops@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@ProPublica "Healing" evidently failed to eradicate the Confederate spirit, haunting not only the composition of southern juries still today.
Had strict "deslaverication" been carried out in the South earlier on, their despicable Jim Crow laws couldn't have taught Hitler & his Nazis how to write their racist anti-semitic Nuremberg Race laws.
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@pedrobizbikedu@mastodon.world replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@ProPublica A tragic and malicious miscarriage of justice.
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